Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the main police headquarters in Syria's capital Damascus on Wednesday (October 11th), killing at least two people, AFP reported.

The "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on social media.

The assault was the second time in a month that suicide attackers have targeted the capital, which has been insulated from the worst of the violence in the war-torn country.

Interior Minister Mohammad Shaar said both of those killed were police officers, according to state news agency SANA.

Two of the suicide bombers detonated their explosives in front of the police headquarters on Khaled Bin al-Walid street in central Damascus, the minister said in a statement.

"The terrorist suicide attackers tried to storm the police command headquarters... The guards opened fire on them, forcing them to blow themselves up before they entered the building and achieved their goals," the statement said.

Police surrounded a third attacker behind the building who also blew himself up, it said.