A drone attack on Wednesday in a region of eastern Syria controlled by Iran-backed groups resulted in the deaths of four people, according to a war monitor.
“Four people were killed and eight wounded in a drone attack near a weapons factory belonging to Iran-backed groups and near a truck loaded with weapons,” Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP.
Who carried out the attack in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor was not immediately known.
According to Abdel Rahman, the attack targeted an area of the city where senior Hezbollah officials from Lebanon and top Iranian commanders live, as well as an Iranian hospital that cares for cholera victims.
Hezbollah and other pro-Iran groups allied with the Syrian regime are widely dispersed to the south and west of the Euphrates River, which passes through the province of Deir Ezzor.
According to state media, a landmine “terrorists” placed exploded in the same neighborhood, killing people.
“A number of citizens were killed and wounded when a landmine planted by terrorists exploded in the Al-Hamidiya neighbourhood of Deir Ezzor,” state news agency SANA reported.
Wednesday’s attack followed a series of unclaimed drone strikes on January 30 that targeted a suspected Iranian weapons convoy in the province and killed 11 people, including a pro-Iranian commander, the Observatory said at the time.
The conflict in Syria started in 2011 with the brutal repression of peaceful protests and escalated to pull in foreign powers and global jihadists.
The war has killed nearly half a million people and forced around half of the country’s pre-war population from their homes.
