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Several children were among the 31 people killed in a pair of bombings near a school in the central Syrian city of Homs, a Syrian official said.
Seventy-four others were injured in the blasts.
The official said that 15 minutes after a car loaded with C4 explosives and gas cylinders blew up near the Akrima Makhzumi School in the Akrima Yadide district of Homs, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt.
Akrima Yadide is a district mostly inhabited by members of President Bashar Assad’s minority Alawite sect, and it was not the first time the Alawite neighbourhoods of Homs have been targeted.
Seventy-four others were injured in the blasts.
The official said that 15 minutes after a car loaded with C4 explosives and gas cylinders blew up near the Akrima Makhzumi School in the Akrima Yadide district of Homs, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt.
Akrima Yadide is a district mostly inhabited by members of President Bashar Assad’s minority Alawite sect, and it was not the first time the Alawite neighbourhoods of Homs have been targeted.
