2 blasts heard in Syria's Homs: monitor

Two explosions were heard Sunday in Syria's central city of Homs, in what later transpired to be rockets slamming into a pro-government district, a monitor group reported.

The two rockets struck areas in the Ekrima district, inhabited by individuals from the offshoot of Shiite Islam Alawite minority, to whom the ruling elite in Syria belong, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The UK-based watchdog group said casualty reports were not immediately available.

In an isolated incident, a bomb detonated Sunday in the central city of Salamiyeh in the countryside of Hama province, wounding one individual, according to the Observatory.

Militant groups have repeatedly targeted Ekrima and other government-controlled areas with rockets and car bombs during the long-running crisis, killing and injuring untold individuals. Enditem