Bus Bombing Hits Syria’s Homs, Five Martyred

Local Editor

Syrian state media reported Wednesday that a bomb attack on a bus in Syria's third city Homs martyred five people and wounded at least seven.

The blast hit a small bus carrying passengers in the al-Zahraa neighborhood, which had repeatedly been targeted in bombings.

In December, four people had been martyred in a blast at a Red Crescent center in the neighborhood, and in February a double bomb attack claimed by the Wahhabi Daesh [Arabic acronym for "ISIS" / "ISIL"] group martyred 57 people.

Interviewed on state television, Homs governor Talal Barazi said four of those martyred were female students heading to university on the bus.

Homs' Waer district is where the last phase of an evacuation is under way under a deal between the Syrian government and extremists.

Three waves of militants and their families had already left Waer under an agreement first reached in December 2015, but subsequent evacuations stalled before a new deal was reached earlier this month.

More than 320,000 people had been martyred in the conflict and millions driven from their homes.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team