Syria Blames Iraq for Bombings That Killed 140, Hurt 149
A senior government official said Wednesday that bomb attacks by Iraqi-trained saboteurs in central Syria last month killed 140 people and wounded 149, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported.
Syria will punish the saboteurs now under arrest and “all those involved in these crimes in one way or another,” the unnamed official said. He was referring to blasts that hit nine buses on highways and a train on the Latakia-Aleppo railway line on April 16.
He said that sabotage gangs, trained and financed by the Iraqi regime, which “exploded a number of public transport means on April 16, killing 140 nationals and wounding 149 others,” have been sent to Syria to carry out killings.
The official said all have been arrested but did not say how many people were involved. They have confessed and disclosed the Iraqi regime’s “role in financing, training and preparing them for this crime,” he said.
He also accused Iraq of supplying arms and funds to Israeli agents in Lebanon to achieve the partition of that country.
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