Seven civilians killed in Syria car bombing

The official SANA news agency said that the attack was carried out on Sunday, when “terrorists blew up a car bomb near the primary school in the town of Um al-Amad in the countryside outside Homs.”?
The report added that two of the victims were workers.
Several people were also wounded and a series of buildings destroyed in the bombing, medics and witnesses said.
Meanwhile, in the Bostan al-Qasser neighborhood of the northwestern city of Aleppo, mortar shells and homemade rockets fired by armed groups killed five civilians, including children.
The blast in Um al-Amad came a day after foreign-backed militants killed 12 people in a mortar attack against a church in the southwestern city of Dara’a.
On December 19, Patriarch of the Church of Antioch Gregory III Laham said up to 1,000 Christians have been killed and over 450,000 others displaced due to the crisis in Syria since March 2011.
Christians make up about 10 percent of the country’s population. The religious minority has been subjected to numerous attacks by extremist groups since the outbreak of violence in Syria.
According to the United Nations, more than four million Syrians will be forced out of their homes in 2014 as a result of the conflict in the country.
Two million Syrians are expected to take refuge outside the country while another 2.25 million are predicted to be internally displaced next year.

The official SANA news agency said that the attack was carried out on Sunday, when “terrorists blew up a car bomb near the primary school in the town of Um al-Amad in the countryside outside Homs.”? The report added that two of the victims were workers. Several people were also wounded and a series of buildings destroyed in the bombing, medics and witnesses said. Meanwhile, in the Bostan al-Qasser neighborhood of the northwestern city of Aleppo, mortar shells and homemade rockets fired by armed groups killed five civilians, including children. The blast in Um al-Amad came a day after foreign-backed militants killed 12 people in a mortar attack against a church in the southwestern city of Dara’a. On December 19, Patriarch of the Church of Antioch Gregory III Laham said up to 1,000 Christians have been killed and over 450,000 others displaced due to the crisis in Syria since March 2011. Christians make up about 10 percent of the country’s population. The religious minority has been subjected to numerous attacks by extremist groups since the outbreak of violence in Syria. According to the United Nations, more than four million Syrians will be forced out of their homes in 2014 as a result of the conflict in the country. Two million Syrians are expected to take refuge outside the country while another 2.25 million are predicted to be internally displaced next year.