ALEPPO. – An Armenian man was killed in a blast in Jaramana area outside Damascus, the recent reports said.

Editor-in-Chief of Lebanon’s Aztag Armenian daily Shahan Kandaharian told Armenian News-NEWS.am that the man was in his car at the moment of explosion. He is Sargis Meresedjian born in 1965.

According to SANA state agency, 18 people, including three children, were killed in terrorist attack. Another 56 people were wounded as powerful car bomb exploded.