22 killed, 70 wounded after rocket hits Al-Waer neighborhood in Homs

 Local activists in the city of Homs said 22 were killed and  70 people were wounded after rocket hit Al-Waer neighborhood.

 The savage offensive By the Assad forces on al-waer neighborhood came after the huge explosion in Munitions depot in pro-Assad suburbs, Reuters reported that 40 people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded.

The explosion occurred in the south-eastern district of Wadi al-Dhahab, which the army has taken over, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The group has a network of sources in the opposition and state security forces, according to Reuters.

Revolutionary pages via social media circulated the Video with mass comments; some of it has described the explosion as new Hiroshima.

It's mixed feelings of Happiness or sadness, an activist said. Is it God revenge from who keep killing us and from people who back and support Bashar al-Assad. 

The Observatory said the casualties were soldiers and civilians and that some of the wounded were in a critical condition.

Al-We'er neighborhood, and other old neighborhoods of Homs, was bombarded by regime forces this morning, according to Human Rights observatory.

 This was accompanied by explosions. 2 civilians, including a child, were killed as a result in al-We'er and several people are injured.

Homs, 140 km (90 miles) north of Damascus, lies at a strategic crossing linking the capital with army bases in coastal regions controlled by Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that has dominated majority Sunni Syria since the 1960s.

Syria's conflict began in March 2011 largely as peaceful protests against Assad's rule. It escalated into a civil war after opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.

More than 100,000 people have been killed in the conflict, according to the U.N.'s recent estimate.