Fifteen Syrian police officers were injured in a bomb blast near the bus they were traveling in, according to the Interior Ministry. Syria.

According to Damascus, security forces were returning to the capital from a mission in Daraa province when “unknown terrorists used an explosive device on the bus carrying them on the Damascus-Daraa highway.”

As a result of the attack, 15 police officers were injured, seven of them seriously.

The situation in the province of Deraa, the cradle of the uprising against his regime Bashar al-Assad it remains unstable in 2011, although it came under the control of government forces in July 2018. The Islamic State, whose third leader was killed in Deraa last October, often claims responsibility for attacks in the area.

There have been other attacks on Syrian army vehicles in the past, for which jihadists have usually claimed responsibility.

Since the war in Syria, which began in 2011 after the suppression of democratic demonstrations, has claimed the lives of about 500 thousand people.

Source: APE-MPE-AFP.