DAMASCUS (AP) – A roadside bomb detonated on Saturday in southwestern Syria, killing at least seven children, in an area where dozens of incidents have already claimed about 100 lives in 2024, state media and a war monitor reported.
It remains unclear who planted the bomb in the northern countryside of conflict-stricken Daraa province, which lies between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Russian-backed Syrian government forces and their allies captured the city and province of Daraa from opposition forces in 2018.
Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights accused a pro-government group of planting the bomb in an assassination attempt, without giving further details.
It says at least eight children were killed. SANA reported two other injuries in the explosion.
Daraa city was once known as the cradle of the Syrian uprising in 2011 that spiraled into all-out war, now in its 14th year.
