Syria: 21 soldiers killed in a bloody ambush

The war in Syria, now entering its eleventh year, has cost the lives of over 388,000 people. However, the bloodshed in the country does not stop, as confirmed by another incident today, Tuesday 12 March.

At least 21 Syrian regime soldiers killed in ambush by gunmen in the southern Syrian province of Deraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The state-run SANA news agency spoke of a “terrorist attack” on a bus carrying soldiers. However, he did not specify the number of of the dead and the injured.

According to the Observatory and as broadcast by APE-MPE, the militants attacked two military trucks and two small buses carrying soldiers, near the village of Mzirib. The attack killed 21 soldiers and wounded seven others.

The Army squad was going to arrest a former rebel commander who is wanted in Damascus and is accused of a deadly attack on police last year, the Observatory’s director Rami Abdel Rahman said.

As he explained, the gunmen acted in this way to prevent his arrest.

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