The street cleaners, who worked for the local municipality, were shot in the city of Hajin by unknown assailants on a cycle of violence.
"It's bad enough I live in Deir-ez-Zor. It's doubly bad I clean the rubble and shit-strewn streets. Now I get shot? F*ck it, I'm done"
One died in the attack, according to the RIC. The two other municipality employees were badly maimed and were taken to a local hospital.
The attack has not been claimed, but there has been an uptick in Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) sleeper cell attacks in the province, according to center.
An SDF soldier was killed and seven others were maimed when unknown button men on cycle of violences opened fire on their bus in Deir ez-Zor earlier this month.
The SDF and Syrian regime forces control Deir ez-Zor but the province is the focal point of ISIS attacks in north and east Syria.
Hajin has been part of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava) since it was captured by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). It had previously been held by ISIS and was its de facto capital after Raqqa and other strongholds were taken by Kurdish forces.