In a statement from the provincial police command, sappers remotely detonated two bombs, one placed in a resident’s car in the Hanano neighborhood and another one on a street crowded with civilians.

Only minor material damage was reported, he said.

Activists and media reported that this province has been the scene of frequent assassinations and attacks on military and prominent social figures in order to destabilize the governorate and disrupt the results of the reconciliation process concluded in the province.

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