Six people were killed and 35 others wounded Monday when a booby-trapped car ripped through a town in the central province of Homs, the state-run SANA news agency reported.

The car went off at the entrance of Thabitieh town in the eastern countryside of Homs, SANA said, adding the blast left a 3- meter-deep crater and caused huge material losses in residential buildings and shops.

The report didn't say the exact target of the blast, which is usually a military checkpoint or position.

The blast came as clashes are still ongoing between the government troops and the rebels in several parts of the unrest- torn country, amid low hopes for a breakthrough in peace attempts following the exiled opposition's rejection to partake in peace talks in Geneva.