Akrama School Bombing

On October 1, 2014, two powerful explosions tore through a primary school in the Alawite-majority Akrama district of Homs city. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the death toll had within a day (after many succumbed to injuries) climbed to at least 53 people killed, 46 of them children (most under the age of 12) The general presumption is that anti-government Islamists were responsible, but there's still time for both sides to blame each other. We shall see...