At least 10 oil field workers were on Thursday killed in an attack on their bus in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor Governorate, state media reported.
“Ten workers at the al-Kharata oil field were martyred and another was wounded in a terrorist attack on a bus transporting them back from work,” the official SANA news agency said, without elaborating.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible.
However, the Islamic State (IS) group has regularly claimed operations in the oil-rich province that was once a part of the sprawling territory it controlled in Syria and Iraq.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that an
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