School bombing kills 41 children in Syria

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published October 2, 2014

At least 41 Syrian children aged under 12 have been killed in a double bombing by a lone assailant at a school in the government-controlled city of Homs, a monitor says.

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