At least 89 people killed and hundreds more injured in drone attack on military college in Syria

The number of people who died when a drone carrying bombs hit a graduation ceremony at a military college in the city of Homs, Syria, increased to 89 on Friday morning. Almost 300 others were injured.

According to Syria’s state-run news agency, SANA, 5 kids and 31 women were killed.

Nobody has come forward and said they are responsible for the attack that happened on Thursday. In a previous statement, the defense ministry accused “terrorist groups helped by famous international people. ”

The ministry said in a statement that many soldiers were hurt, and some of the wounds were very serious. Families who were invited to the event, including women and children, were also hurt, as well as some college students who were graduating.

The Syrian military said the attack was really big and promised to respond forcefully and strongly. They warned that the people who planned and carried out the attack will face serious consequences.

The old city of Homs, previously famous as the main city of the Syrian revolution, experienced heavy fighting in 2012 between the government forces and the opposition fighters who wanted to remove President Bashar Al Assad from power. The city was taken over by the government in 2014, when the rebels gave up and left after being under attack for two years.

The city is in the middle of Syria’s farm area and has always been an important place for trade and transportation. The road that goes through Homs connects the city of Damascus in the south to the city of Aleppo in the north.

On Thursday, a group called the White Helmets, made up of around 3,000 volunteers who help save lives in Syria, said that the Syrian government forces carried out planned attacks on innocent people in the northwestern part of Syria. These attacks caused the deaths of at least 12 people and injured 49 others.

According to the group, 49 people were hurt, including 12 kids and 11 ladies.

Syria often bombs the area to fight against what they consider terrorists.

Big weapons were fired at lots of places in northwest Syria, including cities, towns, and villages in Idlib and the Aleppo countryside. The White Helmets stated that the attacks specifically targeted places like markets, schools, public facilities, and humanitarian workers.

On Wednesday, the group said that airstrikes hit a school in Sarmeen city in the eastern part of Idlib. One child died and six civilians were injured, including three girls (one of them being a baby) and two women.

The White Helmets have said that there have been three days in a row of heavy bombing in Northwest Syria that has caused a lot of deaths.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, at least 11 people were killed in another part of the country due to Turkish airstrikes. These airstrikes were aimed at areas in northeastern Syria that are under Kurdish control. This information was shared by Kurdish security forces in that region.

On Thursday, the Turkish government started a series of attacks on our areas in northeastern Syria. They used more than 15 drones to enter our airspace and targeted several positions, buildings, and gas and oil stations. This caused people to die or get hurt. The Kurdish internal security force, Asayish, said that the aggression also impacted areas where regular people live.

Turkey’s military has started a set of attacks by air on Kurdish targets in Syria and Iraq after a serious bombing in the Turkish capital on Sunday. The attack in Ankara was done by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been fighting against the government for many years and is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States, and the European Union.