By Mahmoud Barakat 

ANKARA

Scores of people were killed Wednesday in a suicide bombing in southwestern Syria, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.

A suicide bomber targeted a marketplace in the regime-controlled city of Sweida, according to SANA. 

Security forces managed to kill two other attackers in the city’s Al-Maslakh district, the news agency reported.

Local sources told Anadolu Agency that as many as 150 people were believed to have lost their lives in the attack. 

Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected ferocity.