- Terror attacks in two cities in Syria killed at least 140 people
- The attacks were made in areas inhabited by Muslim minorities
- Car bombs and explosive belts were used in carrying out the attacks
At least 140 people have been reported dead in bomb blasts carried out by the terrorist Islamic State in two major cities in Syria.
A double car bombing in the city of Homs left 57 people, mostly civilians, dead. Meanwhile, no less than four bomb blasts struck the southern suburb Sayyida Zeinad in the capital Damascus killing at least 83 people.
At least 178 people were reported wounded from the explosions.
The BBC quoted reports saying that the terror group used car bombs and explosive belts in carrying out the attacks.
The areas targeted by the terror group were inhabited mostly by Muslim minorities that the radical ISIS group hates.
Sayyida Zeinad is home to the holiest Shia Muslim shrine in Syria that contains the grave of the Prophet Muhammad’s granddaughter.
This particular neighborhood had already been the target of similar attacks last January that killed 71 people.
In Homs, the attacks occurred in an area inhabited by another minority group, the Alawite sect, to which current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad belongs. Many of those killed were students going to school and government employees off to work.
The city had previously been dubbed as “capital of the revolution” in the height of the Syrian Civil War.
Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria, had already condemned the attack; noting that innocent children were among the victims.
Meanwhile, peace talks had been suspended as Syrian government forces, backed by the Russian military, had intensified their air strikes against insurgents in Aleppo province.
Over 11 million people had already been displaced, and at least 250,000 have died due to the ongoing conflict in Syria.
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