One person has been killed and another injured as two blasts have rocked Damascus on the eve of the parliamentary elections in the country.

The Saturday blasts hit an area near Anas bin Malik mosque in the Nahr Aisha district of southern Damascus, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.

The mosque is where Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has attended prayers in the past.

No group has claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks, which were launched on the eve of the country’s parliamentary elections.

Syrians go to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament as the Damascus government tries to reconstruct the war-torn state under cruel international sanctions. 

Assad's Baath party and its allies are expected to win most of parliament's 250 seats in the first elections since 2016.

For the first time this year, there will be polling stations in former militant-held regions, including in the Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus and in the south of Idlib province in the country's northwest, AFP reports.

The Sunday elections were initially scheduled for April 13, but was first adjourned to May and then to July over the Coronavirus outbreak.