Lebanese supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad fired heavy machine guns and lobbed mortar shells at each other Thursday in some of the worst fighting in the port city of Tripoli in years.AMMAN, Jordan – A Syrian official says gunmen have fired on a bus transporting workers to a blanket factory, killing four and wounding eight others.
He says the attack happened at the entrance of the central city of Homs on Sunday. No other details were immediately available.
He spoke anonymously as he was not authorized to make press statements.
Meanwhile, Syria's state news agency says a suicide bomber crashed an explosives-laden sedan into a coffee shop at a Damascus residential neighborhood, causing damage but no fatalities.
SANA says the explosion took place at dawn on the capital's Masseh highway.
