DARAA, Syria (North Press), Unidentified people targeted on Thursday two military patrols of the government forces in the eastern countryside of Daraa.
A Political Security military patrol of the government forces was targeted with an explosive device on the Damascus-Daraa highway, near the bridge of the town of Khirbet Ghazaleh, in the eastern countryside of Daraa, local sources told North Press.
A second explosive device exploded while a military patrol of the government forces was passing near al-Iman gas station, on the Damascus-Daraa highway, the sources added.
The targeted area witnessed a big security alert for the government forces, according to the sources.
Members of the two patrols were seriously injured, and they were transported to the National Hospital in Izraa in the eastern countryside of Daraa, eyewitnesses told North Press.
Two days ago, armed men in Daraa damaged and damaged more than five military vehicles of the government forces, after clashes that lasted for more than an hour between the two parties north the governorate. The clashes resulted in killing and capturing members of the government forces, according to what a source told North Press at the time.
The clashes came after government forces raided a number of residents’ homes, in search of wanted people who had refused to reconcile with the government forces in Daraa.
Reporting by Ihsan Muhammad
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