Twenty-five people were killed when two explosions struck the Syrian city of Homs on Sunday, Syrian state-run media and a monitoring group said.
Homs Governor Talal al-Barazi told Syria’s SANA news agency that two cars packed with explosives were detonated near a bus stop in central Homs. He said 39 people were wounded in the blasts.
The blasts targeted students and government employees heading to work, the state-run TV station Al-Ikhbaria reported.
The bombings took place in the al-Zahraa district, a regime-controlled neighborhood that is predominantly home to members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect.
Syrian state media blamed the attack on terrorist groups. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombings.
The London-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 25 people were killed in the blasts, and more than 100 people were wounded.
Fourth bombing in neighborhood since December
The Homs neighborhood has been struck by three similar bombings in the past three months.
At least 24 people were killed and 100 injured in a coordinated car bombing and suicide bombing on January 26. Twin bombings also struck the neighborhood on December 28 and December 12.
ISIS claimed responsibility for all three previous attacks.
Kerry: ‘Closer to a ceasefire’ than ever
Violence has continued to rage in recent days in spite of hopes to implement a “cessation of hostilities” Friday. More than a dozen countries agreed to the ceasefire at talks in Munich, Germany, earlier this month, but the agreement seems to have had little impact on the ground.
But at a press conference in Jordan on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said a ceasefire was still “possible.”
“We are closer to a ceasefire today than we have been, and I take nothing for granted about this,” he told reporters at a joint press conference with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh.
More than 250,000 people have been killed, more than 1 million injured and the majority of Syrians displaced since the country’s civil war began in 2011, according to the United Nations.