Homs_school_bombing
Homs school bombing
2014 terrorist attack in Syria
The Homs school bombing occurred on 1 October 2014 in Homs, Syria in an Alawite majority neighborhood during the Syrian civil war.[1][2] The attacker initially detonated an IED that was in front of the Akrama al-Makhzumi Al-Muhdatha elementary school.[lower-alpha 1] Then he blew himself up at another gate of a nearby school, Akrama al-Makhzumi.[5][6] The double bombing killed 54 people: 47 children, 3 members of security forces and 4 adult civilians.[1][5] The attack was the deadliest strike to occur in a government controlled area in over a year, with no group immediately taking responsibility.[2]