Seven people were killed in an attack on a bus in the Homs countryside in central Syria

Seven people were killed on Wednesday when gunfire targeted a bus carrying civilians in Homs Governorate in central Syria, according to the official Syrian news agency, SANA.

The attack also resulted in four people being injured. A security source, who requested to remain anonymous, told Agence France-Presse that an attack targeted a bus transporting employees of an electricity company in Homs Governorate in central Syria, explaining that the bus was carrying “engineers and workers in a private electricity company.”

SANA indicated that the security forces began investigations to identify those involved in targeting the bus.

The security source explained that the bus was carrying “engineers and workers from a private electricity company.”

Prior to the attack, an explosion struck a gas pipeline near one of the most important electrical power stations in the Damascus countryside, according to what was reported by official media, two days after what was described as an “act of sabotage” that targeted another pipeline in eastern Syria.

Since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's rule in late 2024, the new Syrian authorities have faced major security challenges, especially in and around Damascus.

On August 22, the explosion of a bus belonging to the Internal Security Forces near Damascus resulted in a number of casualties among its members.

At the beginning of that month, 14 people were injured in a bombing that targeted a passenger bus in the city of Jaramana, near Damascus.

Jaramana is a crowded suburb southeast of Damascus, inhabited by a Druze majority and also includes Christians and residents from several governorates. In April 2025, it witnessed bloody clashes on a sectarian background that left dozens of Druze dead.

In July, two simultaneous explosions with two explosive devices targeted the vicinity of a hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron stayed during a visit to Damascus. The Syrian authorities said that the cell involved in the two bombings belonged to ISIS.