Damascus, Nov 4 (IANS): Six people were killed and 35 others wounded Monday when a booby-trapped car ripped through a town in Syria's central province of Homs, the state-run SANA news agency reported.
The car bomb went off at the entrance of Thabitieh town in the eastern countryside of Homs leaving a three-metre-deep crater and causing huge material loss to residential buildings and shops, Xinhua reported citing SANA.
The report did not mention the exact target of the blast, which is usually a military checkpoint or position.
The blast came as clashes are still going on between the government troops and the rebels in several parts of the conflict-ridden country amid low hopes for a breakthrough in peace attempts following the exiled opposition's rejection to take part in peace talks in Geneva.