Explosion kills mayor in Syria’s Homs

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An explosive device on Tuesday killed the mayor of the Kafrnan subdistrict in the central Homs province, state media reported.

“Kafrnan mayor, Mohammad al-Ismail was martyred in an explosive device exploding which was planted in his car in Tasnin village, northern Homs countryside,” Syrian state media (SANA) reported on X.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was planted inside a kindergarten bus and exploded before the students got on the bus.

An investigation into the incident has been launched.

Earlier this month, a Russian soldier, a translator, and a civilian sustained various injuries in an IED explosion in an ambulance belonging to Russian forces in Hasaka province, according to SOHR.

The incident took place in the so-called Security Square in Hasaka, which is controlled by the Syrian regime forces.
Syrians rose up against the President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in 2011, leading to a full-scale civil war that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and has left millions more in need of dire humanitarian assistance.

Over 13 million Syrians, half the country’s pre-war population, have been displaced since the start of the civil war, more than six million of which are refugees who have fled the war-torn country, according to UN figures.

 

Updated at 2:14 pm