Thirty people were killed and scores more injured in three explosions which hit a government-held district in central Homs, local sources have told Anadolu Agency.
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Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV was reporting live from Zabadani, showing dozens of bearded men- many of them wounded – being searched and having their names checked before boarding buses.
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At least 32 people have been killed and dozens wounded in two bomb blasts in the city of Homs in Syria.
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President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has agreed to several ceasefires with rebel groups in the past but Monday’s evacuation plan was one of the most elaborate in the almost five-year war.
It said two explosions due to auto bombs as well as a blast due to a suicide attacker wearing an explosives-laden belt reach on Alzahraa’s main square. The Observatory said the evacuation also began in Foua and Kfarya.
Zabadani has been relatively quiet since September when the deal was reached.
Al-Zahra’ is a district inhabited by adherents of the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam to which the ruling elite in Syria belongs. Islamic State claimed responsibility for this attack, saying a suicide auto bomb had detonated.
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It is the second major attack in Homs since a ceasefire deal came into effect in early December, 2015.
