Car bomb kills girl, wounds 25 in southern Syria

A car bomb killed a schoolgirl on Monday and wounded 25 others at a school in the southern Syrian city of Deraa, the scene of sporadic street fighting between Free Syrian Army rebels and President Bashar Al Assad's troops, an opposition activist said.

"The car exploded at nine in the morning in Al Kashef neighbourhood in front of Al Mahatta High School for Girls, which has been active in (anti-Assad) demonstrations," Maher Abdelhaq said from the city on the border with Jordan.

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