At
least 35 people were killed in a collision between two luxury passenger buses
in a central-eastern desert area of Syria on Saturday, SANA News Agency
reported.
Thirty more people were injured in the "collision between two passenger buses on the Damascus-Deir Ezzor road," according to SANA, which quoted a health ministry official.
The Ambulance and Emergency Department at Syria’s Health Ministry announced that the death toll has climbed to 38, while many others have sustained injuries, with several people in critical condition.
Emergency teams are continuing their efforts to evacuate victims and take the injured to hospitals.
The
collision happened between "a bus carrying soldiers of internal security
forces and a civilian bus," according to the interior ministry's
announcement, but it did not specify how many of its forces were killed.
The
minister of emergency and disaster management described the road accident as
"one of the deadliest road accidents in Syria in recent years in terms of
casualties."

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