Daraa | Mysterious explosion kills and injures entire family
Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have reported hearing an explosion in a house in Kuya village in rural Daraa. However, uncertainty surrounded the nature of the explosion which killed the house’s owner and his son, while the rest of the family sustained serious injuries and were taken later to “Daraa National Hospital”.
Yesterday, Observatory activists documented the death of four regime soldiers and “collaborators” in Daraa province, and they were as follows:
- A member of the military intelligence service in Jasim city.
- A “collaborator” with regime forces in Tasil town.
- Two members of the “4th Division” in Tel Shihab town.
Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 764 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 503 persons, categorised as follows:
- 138 civilians, including 12 women and 15 children
- 220 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services
- 98 fighters of factions that struck “reconciliation and settlements” deals with the regime and became in the ranks of regime’s security branches, including former commanders
- 23 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces
- 24 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.