Seven children were killed in southern Syriaโs Daraa province on Saturday when an โexplosive deviceโ detonated, state media reported.
โSeven childrenโ were killed โand two other people were injured, one of them a woman, when an explosive device planted by terroristsโ went off in the city of Sanamayn, state news agency SANA reported, quoting a police source.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor gave a different toll, saying that โeight children of different ages were killed and another was woundedโ in the blast.
The Britain-based monitor said militias were accused of planting the device in order to target an unidentified person in the area.
Daraa was the cradle of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assadโs rule but it was returned to government control in 2018 under a ceasefire deal backed by Russia.
The province has since been plagued by killings, clashes and dire living conditions.
Syriaโs war, which escalated into a deadly conflict that pulled in jihadists and foreign armies, has killed more than 507,000 people, displaced millions and battered the countryโs infrastructure and industry.
AFP
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