AKIPRESS.COM - At least 10 people were killed in a car bomb attack on Sunday targeting a regime-held area of the city of Homs in central Syria, the province's governor told AFP."

Ten people were killed and 22 wounded in a car bomb attack on a collective taxi stand in Zahraa," a district inhabited by Alawites, the Shiite sect of President Bashar al-Assad, said Talal al-Barazi.

Barazi had earlier reported a toll of eight, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave a death toll of 12.

A second car bomb exploded in another district of the city, wounding three people but without causing more deaths, said Barazi.