{"id":3421,"date":"2015-12-12T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2015-12-12T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T17:39:10","slug":"at-least-16-killed-in-car-bomb-in-syrias-homs-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/at-least-16-killed-in-car-bomb-in-syrias-homs-city\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 16 killed in car bomb in Syria&#8217;s Homs city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span class=\"dateline\">A large car bomb exploded near a hospital in the central Syrian city of Homs today, killing 16 people and wounding dozens<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"dateline\">BEIRUT\u2014\u00a0<\/span>A car bomb exploded Saturday in a government-held neighborhood in the central Syrian city of Homs, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens, state media and an opposition monitoring group said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State news agency SANA had earlier said the blast wounded more than 100 people while the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens were hurt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A vehicle bomb detonated close to a hospital in the mainly Alawite neighbourhood of al-Zahra in the east of Homs city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The explosion was terrifying. Body parts were on the ground &#8230; it was one of the biggest explosions to hit Homs,&#8221; a 28-year-old woman working in a neighbourhood coffee shop said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The blast left a huge crater, and people were running in every direction in fear of more explosions,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second large blast, originally suspected to have been a bomb, appeared to have come from an exploding gas canister and wounded people who had come to tend to victims of the first explosion in the densely-populated neighbourhood, state media said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A second blast was heard in the city, but its cause was unclear, the Observatory said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syria&#8217;s civil war has killed more than 250,000 people and wounded a million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/syria-map.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3423\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/syria-map.png?resize=638%2C342\" alt=\"Syria map\" width=\"638\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/syria-map.png?w=638&amp;ssl=1 638w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/syria-map.png?resize=300%2C161&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large car bomb exploded near a hospital in the central Syrian city of Homs today, killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[214,204,356,113,13],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-bombing","tag-crisis","tag-middle-east","tag-security","tag-syria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/syria-bomb-12-2015.jpg?fit=642%2C345&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-Tb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}