At least 40 children Syrian children aged between 6 and 12 have been killed in a double suicide bombing at a school in the government-controlled city of Homs on Wednesday, October 1st.
The suicide explosions occurred as children were leaving school – Ekremah al-Makhzoumi elementary school – at the end of classes on Wednesday, in a neighbourhood inhabited by minority Alawites, the sect that President Bashar al-Assad belongs to.
Also see; http://dekusada.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/40-syrian-children-killed-in-homs.html