Syrian army engineering units thwarted an attempt to detonate a motorcycle with an explosive device placed in front of the Al-Shaab gas station in the center of Daraa. They also prevented another attempt to plant an explosive device in a car in the northern neighborhood without any civilian casualties.
The official SANA agency reported that the governorate's police chief, Brigadier General Darar Al-Dandal, clarified that army personnel suspected an individual placing an explosive device under a parked car in the northern neighborhood and fired at him, resulting in his death. He mentioned that the device was detonated on-site as it could not be disassembled without causing risk, and no injuries were reported.
Al-Dandal added that around 11:30 AM, an unidentified individual parked a motorcycle rigged with a non-disassembling explosive device near the Al-Shaab gas station in the city center, which was subsequently detonated by engineering units after evacuating civilians and securing the area. He noted that there were no human injuries, but limited material damage occurred at the site.
According to statistics from the Syrian Observatory, the number of attacks and assassination attempts in Daraa, carried out in various forms including detonated devices, landmines, booby-trapped vehicles, and gunfire by armed cells from June 2019 to the present reached 777 incidents.
During the same period, the number of those killed as a result of these attempts totaled 511, including 144 civilians (among them 12 women and 15 children), 221 from government forces and allies, and 99 from faction fighters who had entered into “settlements and reconciliations” and were integrated into the security apparatus of the regime, among them former leaders, as well as 23 from Syrian groups affiliated with Lebanese "Hezbollah" and Iranian forces, in addition to 24 from what is known as the "Fifth Corps."
