At least 19 people were killed in a two-bus collision accident in Syria

At least 19 people were killed and about 30 others were injured in a collision between two buses on a highway in a desert area in eastern Syria, according to what state television reported on Saturday.

The channel reported, “19 people died and 27 others were injured in a preliminary toll of a collision between two passenger buses on the Damascus-Deir ez-Zor road between the Sukhna and Palmyra regions.”

The Ministry of Interior explained that the accident occurred between “a bus carrying a number of members of the Internal Security Forces and a civilian bus,” without announcing the number of casualties among its forces.