DAMASCUS: Six people were injured when a roadside blast hit a convoy carrying local officials including the governor in Syria’s southern Daraa province on Wednesday, said the interior ministry.
“Six people were lightly wounded” when a roadside “explosive device planted by a terrorist group” went off while the local officials were returning “from a work visit” in the province’s east, a ministry statement said.
The ministry said the Daraa governor, a police chief and a local official from the ruling Baath party were among the officials in the convoy. However, the ministry did not specify who was wounded in the attack.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said several police officers were injured in the incident.
The southern province of Daraa has been plagued by unrest, with regular attacks, armed clashes and assassinations, some claimed by the IS terrorist group.
Former rebels in the province who accepted the 2018 deal brokered by Russia, Damascus’s main ally, were able to keep their light weapons.
Civil war in Syria has killed more than 500,000 people, displaced millions and badly affected the country’s infrastructure and industry.
