"Ten people were killed and 22 maimed in a car kaboom on a collective taxi stand in Zahraa," a district inhabited by Alawites, the Shiite sect of
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
, said Talal al-Barazi.
Barazi had earlier reported a toll of eight, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave a corpse count of 12.
A second boom-mobile went
kaboom!in another district of the city, wounding three people but without causing more deaths, said Barazi.
Homs has seen some of the worst violence in Syria's more than three-year-old civil war.
For almost two years, anti-regime fighters and local residents were trapped in a suffocating army siege of the Old City in the heart of Homs.
They were evacuated earlier this month under an unprecedented deal involving a major rebel coalition and Iran, a strong backer of the regime.