SOHR: Twelve Syrian police wounded in bus blast

The official Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported that 12 members of the Internal Security Forces were slightly wounded, Wednesday, in the explosion of an explosive device targeting a police bus in the southern province of Daraa.

SANA said that the device exploded near Sidon Bridge in Daraa Governorate.

Deraa province and its capital of the same name, the cradle of the 2011 Syrian uprising, returned to government control in 2018.

However, the rejectionist rebels who remained in the southern part of the city called Daraa al-Balad continued fighting regime forces last year.

A 2021 Moscow-brokered truce saw dozens of opposition fighters on buses leave the city, but some remained.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a wide network of sources inside Syria, said that 20 attacks have been recorded in Daraa governorate since the beginning of the year.

The war monitor says 16 people were killed in those attacks, including eight civilians.

In October last year, two bombs planted on an army bus in the capital, Damascus, killed at least 14 people and wounded three others, the worst such attack in four years, according to SANA.

The conflict in Syria, which erupted in 2011, has killed nearly half a million people and caused the largest conflict-related displacement since World War II.

 

 

Source: unew balance