Monitoring Desk
DAMASCUS: A drone strike killed 4 people in government-controlled eastern Syria on Wednesday in an area controlled by Tehran-backed factions, a war monitor said.
Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP that four people were killed and 8 wounded in a drone attack near a truck loaded with weapons and a weapons factory of Iran-backed groups.
There were neither immediate comments on who carried out the attack in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor nor whether the dead were civilians or fighters.
Situation at drone attack’s site
Abdel Rahman said that the attack targeted a part of the city that is home to residences of key Iranian commanders, high officers of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, and an Iranian hospital to treat cholera patients.
Iran-backed factions aligned with the Syrian government, including Hezbollah, are heavily deployed west and south of the Euphrates River, which bisects the province of Deir Ezzor.
Israel has carried out many air and missile attacks against government troops and their Iran-backed allies. A US-led coalition has also carried out attacks.
State media reported that a landmine planted by “terrorists” exploded in the same area, causing human loss.
According to SANA, several citizens were dead and wounded when a landmine planted by terrorists exploded in the Al-Hamidiya area of Deir Ezzo.
The agency published photographs of the aftermath of the explosion, which showed vast damage to a building and a truck.
