(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
BEIRUT: A bomb blast hit a passengerbus in the government-held city of Homs at noon on Wednesday,killing five people and wounding six, the Syrian state newsagency SANA reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based warmonitor, also said that at least five people were killed in theattack.
SANA's correspondent in Homs said the bombing, which it saidwas carried out by terrorists, targeted a small passenger buswhich was in a street in al-Zahra neighborhood.
The agency quoted the Homs health director as saying thebombing killed 5 people and wounded 6.
Government-held cities have been hit by a series of bombingsin recent weeks, including in Homs, where an attack thatincluded blasts and shooting killed dozens of people in Februaryincluding a senior security official.
Scores of people were killed in suicide attacks in thecapital Damascus earlier this month, including twin bombings onMarch 15 at a central courthouse and a restaurant, and a blastdays earlier near an important Shi'ite Muslim shrine.
After some of the attacks in recent weeks the jihadist rebelgroup Tahrir al-Sham, whose main component is al Qaeda's formerSyrian branch Nusra Front, said it had been behind the blasts.
Analysts have predicted that as jihadist rebels fighting tooust President Bashar al-Assad suffer military reverses, theywill increasingly turn to guerrilla-style attacks in territorycontrolled by the government.
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