Syria said on Friday it would respond "with an iron fist" to terrorist escalation after a suicide attack that left at least 25 martyrs.

Syria said on Friday it would respond "with an iron fist" to terrorist escalation after a suicide attack that left at least 25 martyrs.

"We will strike back with an iron fist at anyone who is tempted to play with the security of the country or its citizens”, Syria state television quoted Interior Minister Ibrahim al-Shaar as saying.
Shaar said that fifteen bodies could not be identified after they were "torn to pieces in the blast”.

The explosion took place when a suicide bomber blew himself up targeting a bus near a school in the central Maidan district of Damascus. The ministry estimated that 63 people had been injured.

The attack was the third such attack in the capital in two weeks.