UNITED NATIONS, May 17 (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he believed al Qaeda was
responsible for two suicide car bombs that killed at least 55
people in Syria a week ago and that the death toll in the
country’s 14-month conflict was now at least 10,000.
“A few days ago there was a huge, serious, massive terrorist
attack. I believe that there must be al Qaeda behind it. This
has created again very serious problems,” Ban told a youth event
at U.N. headquarters in New York.
Two suicide car bombers killed 55 people and wounded 372 in
Damascus last Thursday, state media said, the deadliest attacks
in the Syrian capital since an uprising against President Bashar
al-Assad began in March 2011.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Sandra Maler)
