Breaking News - Death toll soars with college blasts, triple car bombings

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Syria closed universities and suspended classes for college students across the country today as anti-regime activists reported the death toll from two massive blasts that ravaged a campus in Aleppo reached 87. The opposition and the government have blamed each other for the explosions, which marked a major escalation in the struggle for control of Aleppo -- Syria's largest city and once the country's main commercial hub. NBC's Bill Neely reports.4commentintercourseplore related topics: featured, college, syria, students, bashar-assad, aleppo

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