At least nine people died when a car bomb exploded at a gas station in Damascus Thursday, just a day after dozens were killed in an airstrike on a gas station south of the city. Due to fuel shortages, gas stations have become easy targets in the three-way proxy war that has destroyed Syria, as motorists will often wait hours in line for fuel. On Wednesday, the UN Human Rights Council estimated that more than 60,000 people have been killed in the 22-month-long uprising against Iran-backed Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a number that UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay called “truly shocking.”

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