The attack injured 15 police officers, seven of them seriously.
Fifteen Syrian police officers were injured when a bomb exploded next to the bus they were traveling in, the interior ministry said.
According to Damascus, the security forces were returning to the capital from a mission in Daraa province when “unknown terrorists targeted the bus carrying them with an explosive device on the Damascus-Daraaa highway.”
The attack injured 15 police officers, seven of them seriously.
The situation in Deraa province, the cradle of the 2011 uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, remains volatile, although it came under the control of government forces in July 2018. The Islamic State, whose third leader was killed in Deraa last year October, often claims responsibility for attacks in this area.
There have been other attacks on Syrian army vehicles in the past, usually claimed by jihadists.
Since the war in Syria, which began in 2011 after the suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations, has claimed the lives of around 500,000 people.
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