Four explosions hit the government controlled cities of Tartous, Homs and in the countryside outside the capital Damascus, while a fifth explosion hit the Kurdish-held city of Hasaka.
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A string of bombings claimed by the Islamic State group killed dozens across Syria yesterday, as Washington and Moscow failed to agree on a deal to stem the country’s violence.
The Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the dead in both the Homs and Al-Sabura road attacks were government security forces manning checkpoints.
The first bomber detonated his explosives and was followed quickly by the second as civilians rushed in to help the wounded, according to SANA, the government news agency.
The attacks took place between 08:00 and 09:00 (05:00-06:00 GMT) on Monday.
Meanwhile, the observatory reported at least eight people killed in a blast targeting a checkpoint manned by Kurdish security forces in al-Hassakeh, the largest city in north-eastern Syria.
Quoting the head of Al-Bassel hospital in Tartus, state television said 35 people were killed and 43 others wounded in the attack.
The Britain-based Observatory, which maintains a network of contacts inside Syria, put the overall death toll at 47.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the bombings, which struck one day after government forces’ recapture of key military targets from rebels in eastern Aleppo in northern Syria, were coordinated.
The death toll of the auto bomb explosion which took place at the entrance of Bab Tadmur neighborhood in Homs City on Monday rose to four people while the number of the injured raised to ten.
The escalating violence came as U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin met Monday for the first time in almost a year, after talks over the weekend between the two countries on a deal to reduce violence in Syria stalled.
President Barack Obama said his meeting with Vladimir Putin was “constructive but not conclusive”.
No organization has claimed responsibility for the attacks. The bomb blast occurred in the government controlled district. Islamic State attacked Tartous in May. US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov are expected to continue the talks in the coming days.
“If an agreement can be reached, we want to do so urgently, because of the humanitarian situation”.
The Kurdish YPG militia, a critical part of the US -backed campaign against Islamic State, took near complete control of Hasaka city in late August after a week of fighting with the government.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said three Kurdish Syrian police officers were killed in the blast.
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An attacker detonated his motorcycle at the Marsho roundabout in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, killing five, SANA said.
