A/HRC/21/50 iv. Journalists from Ikhbariya TV were reportedly killed in an attack on their premises in the town of Drousha south of Damascus on 27 June 2012. IV. Explosions 55. Between March and July 2012, there have been a series of large explosions in which scores of civilians were killed. The explosions appear to be by suicide bombers or by explosives hidden in vehicles and detonated remotely. The commission has compiled the list below based on open sources it deems credible and where the information is consistent with other material on hand, including interviews conducted by the commission: (i) 18 July 2012, bombing at Syria‘s national security building in Damascus killed the Minister of Defense and other senior Government security officials; (ii) 30 June 2012, a car Bomb targeted a funeral procession in Zamalka, Damascus; (iii) 14 June 2012, a car bomb exploded near the Sayyidah Zaynab shrine in a Damascus suburb injuring 11 people; (iv) 19 May 2012, a car bomb exploded in the parking lot of a military compound in Deir el-Zour; (v) 10 May 2012, two large car bombs exploded near the Military Intelligence branch in Damascus‘ Qazaz neighborhood killing 55 people; (vi) 30 April 2012, twin explosions near daybreak close to a government compound in the city of Idlib killed 20 people, most of them from the security services; (vii) 27 April 2012, a bomb near a mosque of Al-Meidan neighborhood of Damascus killed 11 people; (viii) 18 March 2012, a car bomb killed three people in Aleppo; and (ix) 17 March 2012, two bombs apparently aimed at an intelligence service office and a police headquarters killed 27 people in Damascus. Legal conclusions 56. While these acts may be linked to the non-international armed conflict and thus assessed under the applicable IHL rubric, lack of access to the crime scenes combined with an absence of information on the perpetrators hampered the commission‘s ability to render such an assessment. They are nevertheless domestic crimes prosecutable under the Syrian criminal code. The Government is obliged to ensure an investigation is conducted impartially, promptly, effectively and independently in line with its international human rights obligations. 78