Over 100 killed in serial blasts

Double car bomb attacks killed at least 57 people in Syria’s central city of Homs on Sunday. More than 100 people were injured in the twin bomb attacks in the Al-Zahraa district, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor.

Syrian state television quoted Homs provincial governor Talal Barazi putting the death toll at 32. It broadcast footage from the scene of the attack, showing the air thick with dust and smoke rising from blazes started by the blasts.

Homs city is almost completely controlled by the Syrian government, and has regularly been targeted in bomb attacks. Homs city is almost completely controlled by the Syrian government, and has regularly been targeted in bomb attacks.

Al-Zahraa neighbourhood in particular has been hit multiple times, including a double suicide bombing last month that killed 22 people and was claimed by the Islamic State group.The residents of Al-Zahraa are mostly Alawites, the minority sect of Syria’s ruling clan, including President Bashar al-Assad.

Most of those killed have been civilians.

Blasts near Damascus

Meanwhile, 62 people were killed in a series of attacks, including a car bombing, near a Shia shrine south of Damascus, state television and the monitor said.

The state broadcaster said a car bombing and two suicide attacks ripped through the area of the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, killing 62 and wounding 182. “The attacks came as pupils were leaving school, and several of them were killed,” the state broadcaster reported. — AFP

(Source : thehindu.com)

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