author: Tyler Durden
Armed assailants in Syria killed 7 people and injured 4 others after beginning fire on a civilian bus in the western state of Homs Wednesday night.
The bus transported employees of the company returning home from work erstwhile it was shelled while crossing the Masyaf Bridge in the western village of Homs, according to the Homs wellness Directorate.
Security units were immediately sent to the site to safe the area, while criminal investigators began gathering evidence to identify the guilty and establish a motive, according to the commander of the Homs interior safety Force, Brig. Gen. Bassem Mohammad Shaaban.
The wounded were transported to hospitals throughout the governor's office, while the safety forces began an investigation.
Maan Mahmoud Fahd, manager of the large infirmary in Homs, told Sana that 4 people were declared dead upon arrival, after with respect to serious gunshot wounds to the head and chest chest.
No group admitted work and the authorities did not uncover any suspects. Shaaban announced he would prosecute the perpetrators, claiming the attack would not stay unpunished.
"We see this cowardly attack as an effort to undermine safety in Homs and destabilize the stableness we have tried to stabilise," said Shaaban.
"We will not let criminals to endanger the safety of our citizens or undermine the stableness of the city," he added.
The ambush was 1 of the last fewer attacks that raised safety concerns in Syria since the fall of the government of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
Brigadier General Munir al-Hariri, a Syrian military analyst, told Syria tv that erstwhile supporters of Assad were most likely behind a Wednesday attack that he claimed was intended to destabilise safety in the country. [ZH: It is worth noting the presence of virtually hundreds, if not thousands of jihadist groups, many of which are foreign, which were launched on Syria during the highest period of the proxies war supported by the CIA/NATO/Persian Gulf to overthrow Assad].
In August, a bus was attacked close Damascus carrying members of interior safety forces, while on a passenger bus in Jaramana, southeast of the capital, an explosive exploded, wounding 14 people at the beginning of this month.
Gas pipeline explosion
The attack on the bus was 1 of the 3 main safety incidents that hit Syria on Wednesday. The detonation of the gas pipeline at the Tishreen thermal power plant in the Damascus state of Syria on Wednesday evening resulted in the shutdown of 3 power plants, informed the Syrian Electricity Company, informing that the shutdown would consequence in longer planned power outages.
The detonation sparked a large fire and injured 2 people, according to state broadcaster Alikhbaria. The detonation hit a force simplification station at the entrance to the plant and damaged the 2 gas pipelines that supply it, reported the Syrian Petroleum Company.
The failure of gas supply resulted in the closure of plants in Deir Ali and Nasiriyah, as well as Tishreen, which lies about 36 km from the capital.
Abdul Hamid Salat, manager of the media department of the Ministry of Energy, said the gas supply interruption besides affected pump stations and water purification, disrupting services for hundreds of thousands of people in Damascus and surrounding areas, Daraa, Sweida and Quneitra.
Speaking at the site late at night on Wednesday, energy minister Mohammad al-Bashir said the fire was overrun at night. Al-Bashir added that specialists would examine the site after the cooling by civilian defence teams to accurately find "causes and circumstances".
The authorities have not yet determined whether the detonation was the consequence of a method failure, intentional attack or sabotage.
The Israeli Invasion
Israeli forces launched 3 artillery missiles on Wednesday close the al-Mantara dam in the confederate Quneitra state of Syria. No immediate casualties or harm were reported.
Thursday morning Israeli forces besides entered the village of Saida al-Golan in the south of Quneitra with about 12 military vehicles as students were heading for school. Forces later retreated towards villages in the Jarmuk Basin, without reports of arrests or home searches.
Reports from the Al-Araba service indicate that there was an attempted assassination of a Ministry of Defence officer in Sanamen, north of Dara. The fire occurred during the ongoing activity of the Israeli army in the south of Syria.
On Tuesday, Israeli forces conducted incursions into Quneitra, including an operation during which soldiers interrogated and attacked shepherds, according to Syrian state media.
Recent events besides appear a fewer days after Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa said that talks with Israel on the safety framework had reached an almost 90% divided before Israel withdrew or introduced additional conditions.
Speaking at the Atlantic Council panel in fresh York last week, al-Sharaa said that during the erstwhile year respective rounds of U.S. negotiations were held and that talks were ongoing.
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source:https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolistic
