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Car bomb kills 5 al-Qaida members in Syria's Idlib

At least five al-Qaida fighters were killed and 10 others wounded on Saturday when a booby-trapped car went off in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, the pro-government Sham FM radio reported.

The blast struck the municipal building of the town of Kafr Uwaid in the Jabal al-Zawyieh mountainous region in the countryside of Idlib, the report said. Initial information indicated that at least five fighters of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front were killed.

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