Another suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt amid the crowd which gathered to help those injured in the first blast.
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At least 13 people were killed in a string of bombings inside government territory in Syria, state media reported Monday.
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Two explosions hit the Arzouna bridge area at the entrance to Tartous, killing 35 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a death toll that was confirmed by the head of a city hospital. Conflicting casualty figures are common in the Syria war.
The blasts hit government-held Tartus and Homs, as well as Hasakeh, which is mostly controlled by Kurdish forces but where the regime maintains a presence.
It has become a refuge for many Syrians fleeing violence that has displaced over half the country’s population.
The Observatory said the blast killed three members of the YPG-affiliated security force known as the Asayish, and injured others.
The blasts took place in the morning in the cities of Homs and Tartous and at the entrance to a town west of Damascus, all held by the government, and in Kurdish-held areas in Qamishli and Hasaka in northeastern Syria.
Monday’s bombings came after advances by Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels expelled ISIL from the last stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border under their control.
Also on Monday, a third vehicle bomb went off at a checkpoint at the entrance of al-Zahara neighbourhood in Homs province.
The Observatory said three people died in the Saboura blast.
Both bombers, wearing military uniforms, were disguised as government troops, the military said.
He said the blasts appeared to be coordinated.
“Clearly these attacks were simultaneous and they all targeted security posts”, he said.
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Successive rounds of global negotiations aimed at find a political solution have failed to bear fruit, though US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov are due to resume talks on stemming the violence Monday.
