Syria rocked by seven bombings by ISIS in which nearly 150 are killed

Nearly 150 people have been killed in seven near-simultaneous explosions in northwest Syria for which ISIS has claimed responsibility. The targets chosen were bus stations, hospitals and other civilian sites in two seaside cities within President Bashar al Assad's coastal heartland. As indicated by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights SOHR, 100 people were killed in Jableh and another 48 in Tartus - the dead included children.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 23 May 2016.

The breakup of the seven were five suicide attacks and two car bombs. In one of the attacks in a hospital, the attacker detonated explosives in the hospital emergency room after carrying victims of an earlier attack there. In the opinion of SOHR head, these were "without a doubt the deadliest attacks" in the cities since the six-year civil war began.
The attacks began at 7am BST with three explosions at a bus station in Tartus - this is the place where regime ally Russia has a naval facility. The ISIS has said that the explosions were in retaliation for Syrian and Russian airstrikes against the jihadists. They vowed to carry out "more devastating and bitter attacks".
Till now, more than 270,000 people have been killed in the civil war, while millions have been displaced. The Islamic State had emerged in 2014 and it had seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq and declared an Islamic caliphate.


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