A car bomb killed four people and wounded more than two dozen near the Al-Zahraa neighborhood in Syria’s third city Homs on Tuesday.

The bomber drove the vehicle towards a checkpoint where security forces opened fire, detonating the explosives inside, official news agency SANA said.

At least 30 people were wounded in the blast, it reported.

“Some of those with minor injuries have already left hospital,” governor Talal Barazi told state television.

Homs’s Al-Zahraa district has been targeted repeatedly during Syria’s six-year war, several times by the ISIL Takfiri group.

There was also an apparent car bombing attempt near Damascus on Tuesday, SANA reported.

Police opened fire on a vehicle near a checkpoint which turned out to be carrying explosives and blew up, killing one civilian and wounding another, the news agency said.

The incident happened on the road south from the capital to holy shrine of Sayyida Zeinab (a.s.).

Source: AFP