Bomb blast kills 7 on bus in Syria’s Homs city - police

A bomb blast killed seven people and injured eight others on a bus in Syria’s Homs city on Tuesday, Reuters reports, citing the Homs police chief. “Security agencies are constantly chasing sleeper cells,” he told state-run Ikhbariya TV. The bomb exploded on a passenger bus in the Akrama neighborhood of the government-held city, according to state media.