An attack on a bus in central Syria... and 7 people were killed

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Seven people were killed on Wednesday when gunfire targeted a bus carrying civilians in Homs Governorate in central Syria, according to the official news agency SANA. The attack also resulted in the injury of 4 people.

Meanwhile, the security forces began investigations to identify those involved in targeting the bus.

For his part, a security source explained to Agence France-Presse that the bus was carrying "engineers and workers from a private electricity company."

It is noteworthy that on August 22, the explosion of a bus belonging to the Internal Security Forces near Damascus resulted in a number of casualties among its members.

At the beginning of that month, 14 people were injured in a bombing that targeted a passenger bus in the city of Jaramana, near Damascus.

In July, two simultaneous explosions with two explosive devices targeted the vicinity of a hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron stayed during a visit to Damascus. The Syrian authorities said that the cell involved in the two bombings belonged to ISIS.