Syria Bombing Kills Pro-Assad Cleric Al Buti

A suicide bombing at a Syrian mosque has killed a senior cleric and supporter of President Bashar al Assad, state television has said.

Mohammed al Buti - imam of the historic Ummayyad Mosque - was killed when a bomber blew himself up during packed evening prayers at the Iman Mosque in Damascus.

The Syrian health ministry said 42 people died in the bombing and 84 were injured.

The attack took place at a mosque in Damascus

It is unclear if the explosion was caused by a car bomb or a mortar shell.

TV footage showed wounded people and bodies with severed limbs on the blood-stained floor of the mosque, which has since been sealed off by the military.

The Sunni preacher's death is a big blow to Syria's embattled minority Alawite leader, who is fighting mainly Sunni rebels who want to oust him.

The 84-year-old imam has been a vocal supporter of the Assad regime since the early days of his father and predecessor, the late President Hafez Assad.

In recent months, Syrian TV has carried his sermons from mosques in Damascus live every week.

He also has a regular religious TV programme.

In one of his televised speeches, Dr Buti had described the opposition to Mr Assad as "scum".

He also used his position to call on Syrians to join the armed forces and help Mr Assad defeat his rivals in the country's two-year-long rebellion.

He was remembered for a sermon he gave early in the conflict, in which he told the president he had had a vision that Syria would "receive God's wrath", but would survive.

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