At least eight�people have been killed in a�car bomb explosion at an army checkpoint to the south of the Syrian capital of Damascus.

The Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen television�channel�said�that the car bomb went off near the�military checkpoint in the area of the Sayeda Zeinab Shrine to the south of Damascus on Monday.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the blast, but the�Takfiri�Daesh terrorist group has previously been blamed for similar attacks.

Multiple explosions in February killed scores of people in�the Sayeda Zeinab area, home to Syria's holiest Shia�Muslim�shrine, in one of the bloodiest attacks there.

A terrorist attack there less than a month earlier claimed by Daesh Takfiris�killed 70�people.

By Press TV