Suicide Attack On Security Offices Kills 42 In Syria’s Homs

MEP: At least 42 people have been killed and more than dozens injured in several suicide attacks targeting Syrian military facilities in the city of Homs, state television and a monitor organisation said.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday that loud explosions and gunfire were heard following the assault.

“There were at least six attackers and several of them blew themselves up near the headquarters of state security and military intelligence,” Syrian Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP news agency.

Later in the day, the governor of Homs province, Talal Barzani, told AP that there have been three blasts in total, which have killed more than 20 people and wounded many others. The official estimate conflicts with previous media reports.

Responsibility for the Saturday attacks was later claimed by the al-Nusra Front terrorist group.

Homs has been under the full control of the government since May 2014 when rebels withdrew from the centre under a UN-brokered truce deal.

But it has seen repeated bombings since then. Twin attacks killed 64 people early last year.