Islamic State group has claimed the responsibilty for suicide bombers attack outside a Shiite shrine near the Syrian capital, leaving at least 20 people dead and more than 30 injured yesterday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, said, two suicide bombers, one in a car, attacked the entrance to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, which is revered by Shiites around the world.
The last attack on Sayyida Zeinab on April 25 killed at least seven and wounded dozens. A string of IS bombings near the shrine in February killed 134 persons, most of them civilians.