Twin School Bombing Kills 41 Children in Syria's Homs
At least 41 Syrian children aged under 12 were killed Wednesday in a double bombing by a lone assailant at a school in the government-controlled city of Homs, a monitor said.
They were among 48 people who died in the attacks in the Akrameh neighborhood, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, updating an earlier toll.
"At least 41 schoolchildren were killed in the double bombing at the Akrameh al-Makhzumi school in Homs city today. Several children are still missing, and the toll may rise further still," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
The adults killed were four civilians and three members of the security forces.
One attacker carried out both bombings.
"He planted a bomb at one location at the school, and then blew himself up at another spot nearby," Abdel Rahman told Agence France-Presse of the attacker.
Pro-regime Facebook pages posted chilling pictures of the aftermath, including one of a pile of schoolbags abandoned on a pavement.
One page, named the Homs Youth Club, posted a video apparently shot at the scene, showing panicked residents rushing to evacuate children wearing blue and pink uniform.
Some children shown in the amateur footage were yelling, and one boy being carried was visibly wounded.
Body parts and rubble can be seen in the footage, as well as a thick cloud of black smoke and a burning car.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
But al-Qaida's branch in Syria, al-Nusra Front, said it was behind a similar twin bombing in the central city that killed at least 12 people in May.
Speaking to AFP, Homs governor Talal al-Barazi gave a toll of 31 killed and 74 wounded in Wednesday's attacks.
The children were between six and nine years old, he added.
The toll is among the highest suffered by children in suicide attacks in Syria since the conflict erupted more than three years ago.
In August 2013, a chemical attack on rebel-held areas in the outskirts of Damascus killed dozens of children, and the year before 49 children were killed in the Houla "massacre" in Homs province.
The Akrameh neighborhood of Homs is home to a majority of Alawites, members of the same offshoot of Shiite Islam to which President Bashar Assad belongs.
The district has been targeted before, including on June 19, when at least six people were killed in a car bombing.
Homs was once dubbed "the capital of the revolution" against Assad. Most of the city, except the battered Waar district, has returned to regime control after two years of bombardment and siege.
over 9 years
Funny how M14 trolls on this forum tend to stay quite when articles like this are presented.
over 9 years
Funny how you and your likes did not comment on any article when the regime barrel bombs civilians. You just vote people down with your fake accounts. I was looking for you on the below article along with flamethrower, southern, and Mystic but did not find your comments.
Workers Dig out Dead after Syria Regime Strike on Aleppo
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/149249-workers-dig-out-dead-after-syria-regime-strike-on-aleppo
over 9 years
lies are all you are good at. Ok... go now and comment on the article and show your condemnation; it's never too late is it?
over 9 years
so if I understand you correctly flamethrower, you commented on the article and condemned assad's atrocities and your comments got deleted? Is that what you are saying....LOL
over 9 years
Flamethrower the expert of propaganda says "...and you show us an article where all non M14 posters were reported (:"
On the article mentioned by @galaxy it shows a count of (3) comments and the article now has only 3 comments. It means there were no comments DELETED. If that is not a proof of flamethrower's lies, I don't know what is!
over 9 years
Israel taught you well southern. Qana was collateral damage too according to Israel.
over 9 years
lol eagle!!!! Lying is a way of life for this propagandist. You just exposed him for what he really is. Thank you!
over 9 years
Flamethrower is a natural born liar. He is evil and wicked.
over 9 years
yeah so funny!
over 9 years
crimes against civilains are a crime against humanity that's why eveyone should be held accountable for their actions
the only difference btw us is ur blinded by ur racism, extremism and low values
who teh hell has killed over 200,000 civilians nad tehse are only teh reported defacto cases
whose axis of evil has been vetoing the security council resolutions for protecting civilians
who is using starvation, barrel bombs, chemical weapons against his own people
you are worthless causing the deaths and displacement of thousands
defending a regime aligned with your sect and thinking your better than da3esh and the like
over 9 years
I wonder, do you have a job flamethrower?! I know you claim you have one but seriously what kind of job is it? Southern on the other hand is more honest and he admitted he is unemployed. please, enlighten us dear flamethrower
over 9 years
does anybody know what happened to moe7? Why was he banned... he was a good christian
over 9 years
is taht why Iran provided a safe refuge for alqaeda members who then went on after years to establish the Khorasan group currently being bombed by the west
or in Iran only secular pacifists are persecuted and prosecuted
over 9 years
Flamethrower brings ratings to this forum. People from all over the world know of him and come to read his comments. I sometimes used to visit naharnet not to read its one sided comments but to read Flamethrower's comments. Now, I visit it all the time. He is considered an Idol for many of us in the diaspora, especially those who fly a lot on airplanes.
over 9 years
hahaha is that all uve got
the mere fact of not being pro iranian axis doesn't make me an M14
two, now ur using salary scales as an intimidation mean
three, if u read teh link to teh article posted laer, ull see how Carnegie provided teh facts
but wait, its against ur axis so of course tehir traitors and scum like the 180 who aren't in the axis of evil orbit
as for your impoliteness, ill only say إن الاناء ينضح بما فيه
over 9 years
The "khoarasan" group leader was in Iran until last year. It tells you a lot
over 9 years
the same fanaticism that is taking you to Iraq, Syria and Yemen
and causing revolts in Kuwait and Bahrain
over 9 years
you rarely not contradict yourself flamethrower
over 9 years
You guys actually believe that there's a thing called the "kharasan" group??
that tells us that everything you know is spoon fed to you like the good little sheep you are.
Get your information from somewhere other than Hariri and Geagea's twitter account pls
over 9 years
Outrageous act. M14 western sponsored takfiris
over 9 years
so true mystic
over 9 years
Crickets from the Pro Obamster/bibi/Saudi filth/saad/geagea crew.
over 9 years
I knew you would post I knew it!
over 9 years
It's only crime if they're pro-government?
over 9 years
The Hama massacre (Arabic: مجزرة حماة) occurred in February 1982, when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies, under the orders of the country's then-president, Hafez al-Assad, besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against al-Assad's government.[1][2] The massacre, carried out by the Syrian Army under commanding General Rifaat al-Assad, effectively ended the campaign begun in 1976 by Sunni Muslim groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, against the government.
over 9 years
Initial diplomatic reports from Western countries stated that 1,000 were killed.[3][4] Subsequent estimates vary, with the lower estimates claiming that at least 10,000 Syrian citizens were killed,[5] while others put the number at 20,000 (Robert Fisk),[1] or 40,000 (Syrian Human Rights Committee).[2][6] About 1,000 Syrian soldiers were killed during the operation and large parts of the old city were destroyed. Alongside such events as Black September in Jordan,[7] the attack has been described as one of "the single deadliest acts by any Arab government against its own people in the modern Middle East".[8] The vast majority of the victims were civilians.[9]
over 9 years
Anymore questions, filthy ASSad supporters?
over 9 years
Whoever did this should be hanged. However, those sectarians who support the far more criminal Assad regime are the last ones to preach. They have been cheering the killing of mostly Syrian Sunnis in their tens of thousands.
over 9 years
Wishful thinking, Assad got the upper hand. In regards to barrel bombing, tell FSA and Nusra to stop hiding among the population, there is a war going on. Most of the residents were warn with leaflets before barrel bombings commences.
over 9 years
and you were there and read the leaflets you piece of work?!
over 9 years
It was actually reported in this paper. how bout you were you there?
Poor children are victims at all times whether from artillery shells in east/west Beirut from Syrian army or terrorists car bombs against Lebanese politicians so that intimidation against anti-Syrian regime works well.