DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A bomb destroyed a car in a residential area of the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday, witnesses said, but it was not immediately clear if it caused casualties.
Security officials at the scene refused to comment.
Witnesses saw a mangled white car being towed away bypolice who cordoned off the area, which houses an Iranianschool, a police station and a main Syrian intelligence office.
No further details were immediately available but thewitnesses and a Palestinian source in neighbouring Lebanon saidthe blast was caused by a bomb planted inside the vehicle.
It was not clear what the target was.
Witnesses said some officials from the Palestinian Islamistgroup Hamas were at the scene but there was no indication anyof its members had been the target.
Some Hamas officials, including leader Khaled Meshaal, areexiled in Damascus. At least one mid-level Hamas official hasbeen killed in Damascus by a bomb attack in recent years.
Hamas blamed that attack on Israel.
Syria houses the leaders and headquarters of several othermilitant Palestinian groups who reject any peace deal withIsrael.
