Bomb hits bus transporting police in south Syria wounding 15

BEIRUT (AP) — A roadside bomb concentrating on a bus transporting Syrian police within the nation’s south Monday wounded 15 of the officers, the Inside Ministry stated.

The ministry stated in a terse assertion that the officers had been returning to the capital Damascus from the southern province of Daraa. The bomb exploded on the north-south freeway close to the city of Khirbet Ghazaleh.

It stated seven officers had been significantly wounded.

Such assaults will not be unusual in Syria, the place an almost 12-year-old battle has killed tons of of 1000’s and displaced half the nation’s pre-war inhabitants of 23 million.

In October, a bus bombing killed 18 Syrian soldiers in a Damascus suburb and wounded no less than 27 others.

Comparable assaults through the years have killed and wounded dozens of troopers in government-held components of the war-torn nation. In March final yr, militants attacked a navy bus close to the historic city of Palmyra in central Syria, killing 13 troops and wounding 18 others.

Syrian authorities normally blame members of the Islamic State group who’ve been energetic in southern and central Syria, regardless of their formal defeat in Syria in 2019.

The chief of IS, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in battle with Syrian opposition fighters in Daraa province in mid-October.