CBS/AP February 25, 2017, 8:18 AM
Syria security buildings attacked by suicide bombers in Homs
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BEIRUT -- Twin attacks on two Syrian security offices in the central city of Homs Saturday killed at least 32 people, including a senior security official who heads the area’s branch of the feared Military Intelligence services, state media and officials reported.
An al Qaeda-linked insurgent coalition known as the Levant Liberation Committee claimed responsibility for the attacks, which also left another high-ranking officer seriously wounded. In a statement on their Telegram channel, the group said five attackers stormed the two different security offices. The group said bombs were also detonated at checkpoints outside the buildings just as rescuers were arriving, leading to more casualties.
The governor of Homs Province, Talal Barzani, told The Associated Press there were three blasts in total, killing more than 32 people. He said the attackers were wearing suicide belts, which they detonated in the security offices. The two agencies are 1.2 miles apart.
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Regime targeted here, apparently a few days ago, the government was bombing this general area of Homs:
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syrian-jets-strike-rebel-held-homs-district-death-toll-mounts-monitor-547041234
Saturday 18 February 2017 12:50 UTC
Syrian jets strike rebel-held Homs district, death toll mounts: Monitor
Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes in a besieged rebel-held district of Homs on Saturday that killed at least two people, adding to a death toll of more than 20 in nearly two weeks of air raids, an activist and monitors said.
