AMMAN — At least 53
people were killed Friday by a Takfiri Daesh terrorist attack in the town of
Al-Sokhna, located in the desert of Al-Badieh, in the province of Homs, 250km northeast
of Syria´s capital, state media reported.
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The victims included 46 civilians
and seven soldiers, said Dr Walid Audi, director of the General Authority of
Palmyra National Hospital, according to AFP.
The medical official said the bodies
had "been brought to the hospital after the ambush" that targeted
dozens.
Five people who were wounded were
transferred to another hospital. One of the survivors told SANA that Daesh
extremists had burned their cars.
Deadliest since January 2022The UK-based so-called Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights, a monitor, identified those who carried out the
attack as terrorists riding motorbikes, who started shooting at the truffle
hunters.
The attack marks the deadliest by the group since January 2022
when its fighters stormed a prison in the Kurdish-controlled northeastern city
of Hassakeh in a bid to free other Deash members.
More recently, Daesh killed at least 11 people, mostly
civilians, in a central Syria attack while they were collecting truffles in the
Palmyra area, the observatory reported last Sunday.
Syria’s state news agency SANA reported the attack but gave a
lower death toll, saying Daesh terrorists fired machine guns and killed four
civilians, including a woman.
Hit-and-runThe group once controlled vast swathes of territory in Syria but
lost its hold on land in separate offensives by US-backed fighters, Syrian
government forces backed by Russia, regional fighters, and Turkish-backed
rebels.
Now, Daesh uses sleeper cells to wage hit-and-run attacks in
Syria.
Many people, including women and children, have been targeted in
recent years while truffle hunting in central, northeastern and eastern areas
of Syria.
Separately on Friday, the US
Central Command said four US military personnel were injured in a blast during
a raid that killed a senior Daesh leader in Syria, identified as Hamza
Al-Homsi.
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