Two blasts rock Syria's capital, regime says (CBS/AP) BEIRUT, Lebanon - Two "terrorist explosions" struck security targets in the Syrian capital Saturday morning, killing a number of civilians and security forces, the country's state news agency said. CBS News' George Baghdadi, who's in Damascus, reports at least 40 people were hurt and brought to a Red Crescent hospital. The report from the state-run news agency, SANA, said preliminary information indicated the blasts were caused by car bombs that hit the aviation intelligence department and the criminal security department at around 7:30 a.m local time. Shooting broke out in the wake of the blast and sent residents and others who had gathered in the area fleeing, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said. SANA posted gruesome photographs of the scene, with mangled and charred corpses, bloodstains on the streets and twisted steel. "All our windows and doors are blown out," said Majed Seibiyah, 29, who lives in the area. I was sleeping when I heard a sound like an earthquake. I didn't grasp what was happening until I hear screaming in the street. The regime says it is fighting foreign terrorists and armed gangs, denying there is a popular will behind the revolt. But Assad's opponents say they have been forced to carry weapons because the government used tanks, snipers and machine guns to crush peaceful protests. In recent weeks, Syrian forces have waged a series of heavy offensives against the main strongholds of the opposition - Homs in central Syria, Idlib in the north and Daraa in the south. The bloodshed fuels the country's sectarian tensions. The military's top leadership is stacked heavily with members of the minority Alawite sect, to which Assad and the ruling elite belong. Diplomatic efforts to solve the crisis have so far brought no result. But U.N. envoy Kofi Annan told the Security Council in a briefing Friday that he would return to Damascus even though his recent talks with Assad saw no progress in attempts to cobble together peace negotiations between the two sides. After the confidential briefing via videolink, Annan told reporters in Geneva that he urged the council "to speak with one voice as we try to resolve the crisis in Syria." Russia and China have blocked U.N. action against Assad's regime. "The first objective is for all of us to end the violence and human rights abuses and the killings and get unimpeded access for humanitarian access to the needy, and of course the all-important issue of political process that will lead to a democratic Syria," Annan said. Both Assad and much of the opposition spurned.