The Syrian National News Agency quoted Syrian military sources on the 24th local time, saying that a bus carrying Syrian government soldiers was attacked in the Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria that afternoon, resulting in the deaths of three Syrian government soldiers. Ten Syrian government soldiers were injured.
According to a report by the Syrian News Agency, the bus that was attacked was heading from Deir ez-Zor, the capital of Eastern Syria, to the Palmyra area in central Syria. It was attacked by terrorists and caught fire shortly after it left. As a result, 3 Syrian government soldiers were killed and another 10 Syrian government soldiers were injured.
At present, no organization or individual has claimed to have carried out an attack, but the Syrian media alleged in previous reports that the US military had recently sent 70 militants from extremist groups to its Tanf military base in southern Syria, looking for opportunities to attack Syrian government forces. Launch an attack.
The attack took place and the US military base at Tanf belonged to the desert zone in southern Syria where the remnants of extremist groups are active.
On December 30 last year, there was a terror attack on a bus near the location of the attack, resulting in the death of 25 civilians and the injury of 13 others.
(Headquarters reporter Zhu Xuesong)