Growing tension in rural Daraa | Funeral of 5th Corps member turns into demonstration, calling for toppling regime

Daraa Governorate – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR eyewitnesses say that residents of the town of Kahil, east of Daraa governorate, participated in the funeral of one of the members of the 8th Brigade of the Fifth Corps who was killed during clashes with regime forces yesterday in the town of Mahajeh.

The funeral turned into a demonstration. Participants chanted slogans against regime forces and security branches, demanding the toppling of the regime. 

Syrian Observatory sources have reported that tension is growing throughout the eastern sector of Daraa countryside following the recent developments and skirmishes between regime forces and the Russian-backed 5ht Corps.

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that a large Russian delegation arrived this morning in Bosra Al-Sham city in eastern countryside of Daraa escorted by a delegation of the Syrian regime, in order to discuss the recent development, ease the tension in the area and put an end to this conflict.

The Syrian Observatory had documented the killing of two members of the Fifth Corps after clashes with regime forces in the town of Mahajeh in Daraa countryside, as members of the Military Intelligence checkpoint attacked a resident from the town.

Observatory activists had documented the killing of five regime soldiers in clashes with the 5th Corps in the eastern countryside of Daraa.