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Twin Bomb Blasts Kill Dozens in Syria’s Homs

Twin Bomb Blasts Kill Dozens in Syria’s Homs
Twin Bomb Blasts Kill Dozens in Syria’s Homs

At least 46 people were killed in twin car bomb blasts that hit Syria’s Homs on Sunday in one of the deadliest such attacks in the city in five years of civil war, a monitoring group said, and state media confirmed the explosions. At least 100 others were wounded by the explosions in the city center’s Zahra district, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Footage from pro-Damascus television channels showed charred corpses buried among rubble, damage to shop fronts and debris littering a wide area. Many cars were on fire, sending out plumes of black smoke. Wounded people walked around dazed, Reuters reported.

State television quoted the governor of Homs as saying at least 25 people had been killed.

A bomb attack claimed by Islamic State last month in Homs in the west of the country killed at least 24 people as government forces took back some IS-held villages in Aleppo province in the north. Sunday’s attacks also came a day after government advances against IS. There was no immediate claim from the group, however.

Observatory director Rami Abdulrahman said the attack was the second most deadly of its kind in Homs since 2011, and the deadliest for almost a year and a half.

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