Suicide bomber kills 47 school children in the city of Homs

A suicide bomber had killed 47 children in a school in the city of Homs in Syria giving rise to protests – the children were under the age of 12 news.sky.com. As a part of the protests, hundreds took to the streets calling for the city's governor Talal al Barazi to resign.
The Governor is accused of playing down the atrocity after saying 30 pupils were killed. Actually, the death toll was 54 as revealed by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It seems the protest began as a mass funeral for the children, but gradually morphed into a demonstration as residents vented their rage over the attack on the school which lies in the Akrameh neighborhood of the government-controlled city- Its residents are mainly Alawite, like President Bashar al Assad.
SANA, the state news agency of Syria has described the school bombing as "a horrible human tragedy" and anti-Assad activists have also condemned the attack. However, no agency has claimed responsibility for the bombing.