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Syria: A drone attack on a military academy during a graduation ceremony on Thursday killed at least 100 people in Syria\u2019s central Homs, one of the bloodiest attacks ever against a Syrian army installation, reported BBC. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least nine of the dead were civilians, Reuters reported citing a war monitor. The human rights body said more than 100 people were killed and nearly 125 were injured, as per Al Jazeera. According to Reuters, the Syrian defence ministry has blamed \u201cterrorists\u201d but did not give more details. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n Syria\u2019s military said drones laden with explosives targeted the ceremony on Thursday just after it ended. In a statement, as per Al Jazeera, the military accused fighters \u201cbacked by known international forces\u201d for the deadly attack.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Health Minister Hassan Al-Ghabash gave a lower figure of 80 to state television, the report added. He further said that six children were among the dead, but that about 240 people had been injured. Reports mentioned that the death toll could rise further as many of the wounded were in serious condition.<\/p>\n UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has \u201cexpressed deep concern\u201d at the drone attack in Homs as well as \u201creports of retaliatory shelling\u201d in northwest Syria, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Syria: A drone attack on a military academy during a graduation ceremony on Thursday killed at least 100 people in Syria\u2019s central Homs, one of the bloodiest attacks ever against a Syrian army installation, reported BBC. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least nine of the dead were civilians, Reuters reported citing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9829,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827\/revisions\/9829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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