At least 34 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a powerful car bomb attack on Friday in a government-held village in central Syria.
According to ABC News, Syria”s state-run news agency and an opposition activist group said that the explosion went off in Horrah village in the countryside near the central city of Hama.
Meanwhile, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which documents the violence in Syria through an extensive network of activists on the ground, said at least 37 people were killed and more than 40 others wounded in the bombing, the report said.
It further said in a statement that the death toll was likely to rise, as the condition of many of the injured was critical.
The blast is the latest in the series of bomb attacks on civilians since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011.
Earlier, a car bomb exploded near a school in the pro-government Nazha district of the central city of Homs, killing three people and wounding nine. (ANI)