Homs blast kills 25, wounds 107: regime

Damascus: Syria’s state-run news agency said on Wednesday that two car bombs killed 25 people in the central city of Homs.

SANA said the blasts that struck a busy street also wounded 107 people.

It said the dead and wounded in Wednesday’s explosions included women and children.

One car was parked near a sweets shop, and half an hour later another car blew up, it added.

Among those wounded was SANA’s photographer in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city. It said the blasts went off in the Karm Al Loz neighbourhood.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the neighbourhood is mostly inhabited by members of President Bashar Assad’s Alawite sect.