83 people, many on campus for midterm exams, were killed in two explosions minutes apart Tuesday at a university in the northern city of Aleppo in Syria.
The explosions tore the facades off buildings, blew out windows, set cars ablaze and left bodies scattered across the grounds of Aleppo University, which has managed to stay open despite battles between government forces and rebels.
It was not known who was responsible for the blasts. Both sides accused the other, seeking to portray themselves as on the right side in a conflict that has trapped civilians in the middle and claimed more than 60,000 lives, according to the United Nations.
But any explanation was possible in a city that has been devastated by fighting between the government and rebels.
Aleppo, like the suburbs of Damascus, the capital, has become a symbol of the destructiveness of the war, which is uprooting people and laying waste to a rich cultural heritage.
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