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Car Bomb Explodes in Central Syrian City of Homs
[An Nahar] Syrian media and opposition activists said Saturday that a boom-mobile went kaboom!in the central city of Homs, causing casualties. The Syrian state-owned Al-Ikhbariya TV said the blast in the city's southern al-Nozah neighborhood was a suicide bomb. It reported casualties but did not give a number. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of informants inside Syria, said the car was booby-trapped. It said seven people died, according to preliminary reports. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the different accounts. Activists said the al-Nozah district is populated largely by Alawites, members of the offshoot Shiite sect to which Syria's  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Leveler of Latakia... belongs. Government troops are on an offensive against rebels near Homs, seizing a strategic town south of the city this week. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-09 |
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