A drone attack on a military college in Syria’s Homs province caused a large number of casualties, Syrian state TV reported on Thursday.
The Syrian regime’s Al-Ikhbariya channel said: “A drone attack targeted the graduation ceremony for an officers’ course at the Military College in Homs, resulting in large numbers of deaths and injuries.”
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor, as cited by AFP, at least 60 people were killed – including military personnel and at least nine civilians – with dozens more wounded. The death toll is likely to increase.
Local sources reported that explosions were heard in several neighbourhoods of the western city of Homs, with drones targeting the city’s Military College building.
Meanwhile, the Russian agency Sputnik, citing local medical sources said that ambulances had arrived and began transporting the injured to Homs Military Hospital.
