Video: Syria: Six children killed as car bomb hits school near Damascus More than a dozen people were killed in the blast in Qatana, Syrian government and government-supporting TV stations said on Thursday. Witnesses told Syria's government supporting al-Ikhbariya TV channel what they saw. We were going to the school when the explosion took place. People flew into the air. I do not know anything about my parents. They may have died," a woman said. They were all students and workers going to their work places. The explosion happened and people flew. The ground was full of bodies. I saw a victim who was cut into pieces," said a man. Qatana is part of a string of outlying suburbs and towns where President Bashar al-Assad's forces have been trying to push back rebels. The attack follows three bombs which exploded at the Interior Ministry on Wednesday evening, killing five.