Syrian Arab army finds a 500-meter tunnel in Homs, eliminates many of al-Nusra Front terrorists

PROVINCES,(ST)_A tunnel of about 500meters (550yards) long and almost 170cm height has been discovered in the central Homs province, as  arms dump and two car bombs have been destroyed in the northern Aleppo province.

The tunnel, which stretches from the quarter of Bab Hod to  Joret al-Shayyah, had been used by terrorists to carry weapons from one place to another, according to an official source. 

“The armed forces located drilling tools and electrical wires in the tunnel,” the source told SANA, adding that a sniper was nabbed south of the real estate  building in Bab Hod quarter.

An arms cache and 2 car bombs destroyed

As for developments in  northern Aleppo province, an official source confirmed that the armed forces shelled an arms dump of terrorists and two car bombs in the northern countryside- in Tal Ref’at town.

It added that anti-aircraft missile, a 120-mm mortar, and various types of ammunitions were destroyed in Hritan area and west of al-Blaka restaurant as well as near Kafernaha junction. 

However, the southwestern Aleppo countryside saw clashes between units of the armed forces and terrorists in farms of Khan al-Assal and in al-Klereyeh hill which resulted in crushing dozens of terrorists.

Concurrently, it was reported that the armed forces killed an unknown number of al-Nusra Front-linked terrorists and bombarded  their heavy machine guns and ammunitions in a series of qualitative operations targeted at their hideouts in the Eastern Ghouta, to the southern Damascus countryside, and outside Idlib , Hama, Latakia, Der Ezzour, and Daraa provinces.  

Terrorists of Arab and foreign nationalities were among the dead.

More terrorists reportedly perished in a quarrel which broke out among them over splitting stolen money in Mohsen town in Der Ezzour province.

Homs explosion kills 4 citizens

In a separate incident, two car bombs exploded in ‘al-Hadara’ street in the residential Ekremah quarter of Homs city killing 4 citizens and leaving 40 others wounded.

The terrorist act also caused massive damages at the scene.

At night, the Syrian TV channel reported that an explosive device pasted to a car was detonated by terrorists in al-Worod quarter in the capital leaving casualties.

In less than an hour, the TV said another explosive device attached to a car was also detonated near ‘ Jesr al-Raees’ area { known as the ‘president bridge’} in the capital.

While at midday, an engineering unit defused an explosive device weighing 1kg planted by terrorists inside al-Tala’ea Park in al-Fahhameh area in the capital.

B.Q