Blasts hit Syrian interior ministry

Explosions outside the Syrian interior ministry, including a car bomb, killed seven people and wounded 50 others yesterday, a security official said.
Interior Minister Mohammad al-Shaar and other top ranking officials escaped unharmed, state television reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 25 people were killed and wounded.
The adjacent building housing the Egyptian embassy was also hit, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.
Meanwhile, more than 125 civilians from President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were reported killed Tuesday.
"Between 125 and 150 people were killed or hurt by gunshots and explosions in the village of Aqrab," The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP.
Several bombings have struck Damascus since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule erupted in March last year, among them suicide attacks.