Daily death toll | 54 persons killed on April 16 across Syria

Further details of fatalities, documented by SOHR, can be summarised as follows:

 

• A first lieutenant, who was the head of the military intelligence station in Sa’sa’, was killed in an armed attack on the station which overlooks the road between Al-Musharifah and Rasm Khuwayled in Al-Quneitra countryside near the border with the occupied Syrian Golan.

 

• Three members of “Al-Qaterji” militia was killed in the explosion of an old landmine in a pick up vehicle during an inspection tour nearby Al-Taym oil field in Deir Ezzor countryside.

 

• A civilian was shot dead by unknown gunmen in front of his house in Manbij.

 

• Two Kurdish fighters were killed in bombardment by Turkish forces and their proxy factions on positions of Kurdish forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo.

 

• A young man was killed by the explosion of an old landmine in the plains surrounding Nahteh town in the eastern countryside of Daraa.

 

• Five civilians were killed in an attack by ISIS cells, while herding sheep in the desert of the regime-controlled town of Baqrus in Deir Ezzor countryside.

 

• Two civilians were found dead, as they had been killed in earlier attack by ISIS cells, while searching for truffle in Al-Sha’fah area in Al-Bishri desert in Deir Ezzor countryside.

 

• 36 persons, including 17 members of the National Defence Forces, were killed in an attack by ISIS cells against civilians and combatants who were searching for truffle in Duwayxen area in eastern Hama.

 

• Two regime soldiers were killed in an attack by “special forces” of “Liwaa Abdulrahman Bin Ouf” which operates under the banner of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham on regime positions in Basrtoun in the western countryside of Aleppo.

 

• A civilian died of the wounds he had sustained in April 11 due to the explosion of an old landmine, while searching for truffle in Al-Duwayr desert in Al-Asharah countryside in Deir Ezzor province.