The 2015 Homs car bombing was a twin-explosion car bombing that killed 16 and injured many more. It occurred near a hospital in al-Zahra, an Alawite populated, government-controlled Neighborhood east of Homs' old city. The attack came five days after the government and rebels agreed on a local ceasefire in the western al-Waer suburb.[1][2][3]
Homs car bombing | |
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Part of Syrian Civil War | |
Location | Homs, Syria |
Date | 12 December 2015 |
Attack type | Car bombs |
Deaths | 16 |
Perpetrators | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
References
edit- ^ "Blasts near hospital in Syria's Homs city kill 16". Reuters. December 12, 2015 – via www.reuters.com.
- ^ "Deadly car bomb attack rocks Syria's Homs". www.aljazeera.com.
- ^ "'IS Homs bomb attack' kills 16". BBC News. December 12, 2015.