Suicide bomber kills at least one police officer in Syria’s Aleppo

Officials say a ‘terrorist’ detonated suicide belt as officers protecting New Year’s Eve festivities tried to detain him.

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A suicide bomber targeted a group of Syrian police officers in the city of Aleppo killing one member of the security forces and wounding several others, the official news agency SANA reported.

The Aleppo governorate administration said the assailant blew himself up on Wednesday after officers approached to detain him in the city’s Bab al-Faraj neighbourhood.