Syria: Ten oil well workers killed in an attack attributed to the Islamic State

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The attack began with the detonation of explosive devices while the buses were passing by, before IS members began shooting at the vehicles,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Ten workers at an oil well in eastern Syria I killed myselfn and two were injured in an “attack” on their motorcade, the official Sana news agency reported today.

“Ten workers were killed and two others were injured in a terrorist attack on three buses transporting workers from Al-Taim to Deir Ezzor” in the eastern part of the country, Sana said without specifying the type of attack or by whom. .

For the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, “the attack was carried out by nuclei close to the Islamic State (IS) organization”, near the oil well west of Deir Ezzor.

“The attack began with the detonation of explosive devices while the buses were passing by, before IS members started shooting at the vehicles,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

The attack took place while Kurdish forces in Syria announced yesterday that they had launched an operation against IS in cooperation with the international coalition led by the US, three days after a bloody attack in the northern part of the country.

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