A well-informed source told Al-Modon that the explosive device was placed on the roadside between the Al-Saboura and Al-Dimas areas, which comprise the division’s most important headquarters in addition to the Republican Guard headquarters. , and exploded in a sleeper bus containing 42 members as they returned from changing the barriers and barracks they had scattered in the Yafour and Zabadani area.
According to the source, the initial outcome points to the killing of 19 members, including an officer with the rank of first lieutenant, while more than 25 others, including officers, were injured, explaining that the bomb targeted the exact time of the bus passing between the Al-Dimas and Al-Saboura areas, which makes it likely that behind the blast there are elements of the security settlements who are in the ranks of the division.
The source indicated that the division’s security office was deployed in the vicinity of the site and a heavy security cordon was struck in the area, in addition to the deployment of a series of temporary (flying) checkpoints in the vicinity of the site. , and the area witnessed a major security tightening imposed by division checkpoints near the site, most notably the Yafour checkpoint on the Damascus-Beirut highway.
For its part, the pro-Syrian website Pulse said the bombing led to “the martyrdom of 18 soldiers, as well as the wounding of 20 others, in the attack that targeted the night bus on the Damascus-Al-Saboura road”.
The western region of Rif Dimashq witnesses from time to time bombings and attacks, which have targeted the checkpoints belonging to the Fourth Division in the area, as well as checkpoints belonging to the branches of the security services.
The capital, Damascus, was not immune from the bombing, as a double strike in October 2021 targeted a sleeper bus for members of military housing under the President Bridge in the Baramkeh neighborhood of central Damascus, which resulted in the killing of 14 members of the regime’s army and the wounding of 5 others.
