Syria bomb blast near UN convoy

 

A roadside bomb has exploded in Syria 150m from a convoy carrying the head of the UN observer mission there.

The blast happened in the Douma district of Damascus but no casualties have been reported.
Maj Gen Robert Mood's vehicle was at an army checkpoint when the bomb went off in a nearby alleyway.
The observer mission, with more than 250 members, has not been able to stop the violence despite a truce negotiated by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.
The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous was also part of the convoy.
Journalists who were also there say the front of a Toyota pick-up vehicle was blown off.
There is so far no comment from the mission itself.
Clashed had been reported in Douma earlier in the day. Reuters news agency says gunmen wounded 29 members of the security forces.
Douma, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, was one of the first areas to join the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

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