Car Bomb Near School In Central Syria Kills 16

DAMASCUS, Syrian Arab Republic — Syrian state media associated an opposition watchdog say a bomb has exploded close to a faculty in an exceedingly central province, killing a minimum of sixteen individuals and wounding dozens.
Syrian TV says Thursday's explosion within the al-Kaffat village within the central Hama province additionally caused in depth harm. The Hama police command says there have been ladies and kids among the victims.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that keeps track of the fighting in Syrian Arab Republic through a network of activists on the bottom, says eighteen individuals were killed, most of them civilians.
Al-Kaffat's residents area unit largely from the country's minority Ismaili sect, a branch of Shiite Islam.
Syria's conflict has cellular the largely Sunni opposition against President Bashar Assad's Alawites, members of a Shiite result sect.