DAMASCUS, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed and 24 others wounded when a car bomb went off in a street in the central Syrian province of Homs on Sunday, Syria's local media said.
The initial information has revealed that a car bomb went off near Omar Bin al-Khattab mosque at al-Hamra neighborhood, the state-run SANA news agency said, adding that at least 15 people were killed in the blast and huge damage has also been caused to nearby buildings.
Blasts in Syria have become daily occurrences, as the armed radical rebels have seemingly resorted to such tactics to overstretch the Syrian troops as part of the war of attrition which they have waged against the Syrian administration.
Meanwhile, SANA said that army troops have clashed with al- Qaida terrorists at al-Sabkha and al-Karama at the province of al- Raqqa and inflicted heavy losses on them.
It added that the clashes have resulted in the killing and wounding of tens of terrorists while the others have fled the scene.
Also, the army has eliminated tens of terrorists and seized their weapons at Skaa town in the capital of Damascus' outskirts, said SANA, adding that engineering units have also dismantled several improvised explosive devices planted by terrorists inside houses at the Damascus suburb of Daraya.
On the opposition side, the Local Coordination Committees (LCC), an activists' network, reported government troops' shelling on several hotspots across Syria, including the focal points of Hajar al-Aswad and al-Isali and Sabaineh in the countryside of Damascus.
The LCC said that a woman and three children were killed Sunday in the northern mountainous area of Jabal al-Zawieh in the province of Idlib due to the heavy shelling on the area. It added that six others were injured due to the intense clashes between the government troops and the rebels.
There has been no independent confirmation on the activists' reports.
The violence in Syria has been dragging on since last year, sending people on the edge with the failure of all international efforts to put an end to it.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, another activists' network, said last week that more than 40,000 Syrians had been killed during the 20-month-old crisis in Syria, adding that the death toll includes 28,026 civilians and rebel fighters, 1,379 defectors, 10,150 soldiers and 574 unidentified people.
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