More than 50 people have been killed with scores injured in a series of attacks in Syria.<br /><br />In Damascus at least 14 people lost their lives with 80 wounded in a mortar attack on a technical institute in the centre of the capital.<br /><br />Four shells were fired during the raid on the institute, which is an Islamic law studies centre with students as young as 14 in attendance.<br /><br />In a government stronghold of Zahra in the city of Homs a fatal car bomb exploded, followed by a rocket attack.<br /><br />Close to 40 people are reported to have died.<br /><br />The Syrian government blamed “terrorists” for the carnage.<br /><br />The attacks come after Human Rights Watch accused the Syrian military of indiscriminately using barrel bombs in the city of Aleppo despite UN calls for them to cease.
