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Dozens killed in Homs Armenian district car bomb blast
March 7, 2014 - 12:51 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - At least 15 people were killed and 12 others wounded
in a car bomb blast in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday,
March 6 an NGO said, according to Agence France-Presse.
"At least 15 people were killed and 12 others injured in the Armenian
district, which is home to mostly Christians and Alawites," said Rami
Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad comes from the Alawite community, a
religious minority that stems from Shiite Islam.
Syria's state news agency SANA reported a "terrorist attack" on the
main street of the district, "which caused deaths, injuries and
damage."
The neighbourhood, in the east of Homs, is under government control.
Homs, once dubbed the "capital" of Syria's revolution for its
prominent, well-attended anti-government protests, has been the scene
of fierce fighting between the regime and rebels.
Part of its Old City under rebel control has been subjected to a tight
government siege that has left several thousand civilians trapped.
In recent weeks, UN and Red Crescent teams were able to evacuate some
civilians and distribute food and medicine to those remaining in the
besieged neighbourhoods, but the operations have halted.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/176598/
http://news.yahoo.com/car-bomb-blast-kills-15-syrias-homs-ngo-155011351.html
March 7, 2014 - 12:51 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - At least 15 people were killed and 12 others wounded
in a car bomb blast in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday,
March 6 an NGO said, according to Agence France-Presse.
"At least 15 people were killed and 12 others injured in the Armenian
district, which is home to mostly Christians and Alawites," said Rami
Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad comes from the Alawite community, a
religious minority that stems from Shiite Islam.
Syria's state news agency SANA reported a "terrorist attack" on the
main street of the district, "which caused deaths, injuries and
damage."
The neighbourhood, in the east of Homs, is under government control.
Homs, once dubbed the "capital" of Syria's revolution for its
prominent, well-attended anti-government protests, has been the scene
of fierce fighting between the regime and rebels.
Part of its Old City under rebel control has been subjected to a tight
government siege that has left several thousand civilians trapped.
In recent weeks, UN and Red Crescent teams were able to evacuate some
civilians and distribute food and medicine to those remaining in the
besieged neighbourhoods, but the operations have halted.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/176598/
http://news.yahoo.com/car-bomb-blast-kills-15-syrias-homs-ngo-155011351.html