Car bomb kills 8 in Syria's Homs

At least eight people were killed and 25 others wounded in a car bomb attack in Syria's central city of Homs on Saturday, just days after a deal ended the rebel existence in their last stronghold west of Homs, state news agency SANA reported.

A booby-trapped car tore through the pro-government al-Zahra'a neighborhood of Homs, an area that has seen several bombings as it's home to the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiism, to whom the ruling elite in Syria belongs.

SANA said the death toll is still preliminary, as the bomb exploded in an area between the National Hospital and al-Nahda Charity in al-Zahra'a.

Saturday's bombing came just days after the government and the rebels reached an agreement under a UN mediation, by which the militants left their positions in al-Waer neighborhood, the last rebel stronghold west of Homs. Endit