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BEIRUT – The latest on developments in Syria (all local times):
16:00
The Islamic State group claimed a series of deadly bombings and suicide bombings in the city from Sweida, southern Syria.
IS said in a statement posted on the group's social networks that its "soldiers" conducted surprise attacks on government and security centers in Sweida on Wednesday.
Bomb attacks – including a suicide bombing A vegetable market and a town square sparked clashes later in the day between Syrian troops, Allied militias and ISIS militants .
According to IS, more than 100 people were killed. Subsequent attacks and fighting between local armed groups and militants in Sweida killed more than 90 people.
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15:30
A local Syrian health official said that a series of suicide attacks and coordinated attacks and subsequent fighting between local armed groups and activists in southern Syria have killed more than 90 people.
Hbadan Omar told the Associated Press that 80 people were injured in Wednesday's attacks and clashes.
The official SANA news agency reported some of these attacks, including suicide bombings in the city of Sweida, a provincial capital populated by the Syrian minority Druze
. and others elsewhere in the surrounding province, also called Sweida, at 38.
The shelling seems to have sparked fighting between local armed groups that killed dozens of others, including militants from l & # 39; IE.
2:15 pm
A series of suicide bombings and attacks in southern Syria – including a suicide bomber who hit a busy vegetable market – killed 38 people.
The responsibility for the attacks, but the state media, government spokesman, accuse the militants of the Islamic State of carnage.
The coordinated attacks in the city of Sweida, the provincial capital populated by the Druze Syrian minority, were the worst.
The attacks were apparently scheduled to coincide with attacks by an ISI militant group in a number of villages in the province, also known as Sweida.
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