At least 14 people were killed and three injured in a bomb attack on a bus carrying soldiers in Damascus on Wednesday morning. That reports Reuters news agency. Shortly after the blasts in the Syrian capital, at least eight civilians were also killed on Wednesday in a Syrian army attack in Idlib province, an area controlled by rebels.
Two bombs went off on board the bus in Damascus as it crossed a bridge in the center of the city during the morning rush hour. It is one of the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital in years. It has been relatively quiet in Damascus since the rebels, mostly Sunni extremists, withdrew in 2018 to the more northerly province of Idlib. The attack on the bus has not yet been claimed.
Several civilians were killed in a Syrian army rocket attack on Wednesday morning in Ariha, a rebel town in southern Idlib. In addition to the eight fatalities, at least 26 were injured in an area where people walked to school or work. The death toll is likely to rise, human rights organization reports Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Not so many civilians have died in an attack since March 2020, the organization says.
The turmoil of the attacks coincides with a Wednesday appearance report showing that returning Syrian refugees are still not safe in their home countries. Human rights organization Human Rights Watch spoke with 65 Syrian returnees. A third of them were arrested at checkpoints. Prisoners were brutally tortured, others disappeared or were murdered, the report shows.
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