A roadside bomb that targeted a bus carrying Syrian police in the south of the country on Monday injured 15 of the officers, the Interior Ministry said.
The ministry said in a brief statement that the officers were returning to the capital Damascus from the southern province of Daraa. The bomb exploded on the north-south highway near the town of Khirbet Ghazaleh.
He said seven officers were seriously injured.
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Such attacks are not uncommon in Syria, where a nearly 12-year conflict has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced half of the country’s pre-war population of 23 million.
A bus carrying Syrian police to the country’s capital, Damascus, was hit by roadside shelling. The attack injured 15 officers on board the bus.
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In October, a bus bomb killed 18 Syrian soldiers in a Damascus suburb and wounded at least 27 others.
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Similar attacks over the years have killed and wounded dozens of soldiers in government-controlled parts of the war-torn country. In March last year, militants attacked a military bus near the historic city of Palmyra in central Syria, killing 13 soldiers and wounding 18 others.
Syrian authorities often blame members of the Islamic State group who have been active in southern and central Syria, despite their formal defeat in Syria in 2019.
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IS leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed in a battle with Syrian opposition fighters in Daraa province in mid-October.
