March 2012 Aleppo bombings | |
Partof: | Syrian civil war |
Location: | Aleppo, Syria |
Date: | 18 March 2012 |
Time: | 13:30 |
Timezone: | UTC+3 |
Type: | car bomb |
Fatalities: | 3 (2 security personnel, 1 civilian) |
Injuries: | more than 30 |
Perpetrators: | claimed by the Free Syrian Army |
On 18 March 2012, a car bomb blast in a residential neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo killed two members of security forces and one female civilian. Some 30 residents were wounded.[1] [2]
Residential buildings and a nearby monastery were severely damaged as a result of the bomb blast.
It was the second bombing in the city in a series of deadly attacks that took place in the city during 2012, in the frames of the Syrian civil war.