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(CNN) -- A bomb attached to a diesel tanker exploded behind a hotel housing U.N. monitors, state-run TV reported Wednesday.
Three people were wounded in the blast near the Dama Rose Hotel, but the observers tasked with monitoring the situation in Syria are safe, state media reported.
Sander van Hoorn, a correspondent for NOS Dutch radio and TV, told CNN he was about 400 meters away from the blast.
"We saw a big explosion emanating from a small fuel truck inside a nearby military compound. The military compound comprised of several old buildings is walled, guarded and monitored with security cameras, so it is difficult to enter the compound without permission," he said.
"We saw a big explosion emanating from a small fuel truck inside a nearby military compound. The military compound comprised of several old buildings is walled, guarded and monitored with security cameras, so it is difficult to enter the compound without permission," he said.
Warplanes dropped explosives on the eastern province of Deir Ezzor early Wednesday, opposition activists said, as fierce clashes broke out again between regime and rebel fighters near the Syrian-Turkish border.