7 members of the regime forces, including an officer, were also killed
In a new attack, 53 people were killed in an attack by the terrorist organization ISIS in the southeast of the city of Al-Sukhna in the eastern countryside of Homs.
The dead were killed while collecting truffles, without knowing the timing of the attack, according to what was reported by regime-affiliated media in Syria on Friday evening.
However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that gunmen riding motorcycles killed 46 citizens on Friday, while they were collecting truffles in the Al-Dabyat area in the southern countryside of Al-Sukhna, in the Homs desert.
The Observatory added that 7 members of the regime forces, including an officer, were also killed, bringing the death toll from the attack to 53.
The attack came as the Observatory announced earlier that ISIS had released 25 people, out of 75 they had kidnapped earlier this week while they were collecting truffles in Palmyra, in the eastern Homs desert.
It is noteworthy that since the announcement of the elimination of ISIS in 2019 and the loss of all areas of its control, the extremist organization has retreated to the Syrian desert, which extends between the governorates of Homs (center) and Deir ez-Zor (east), at the border with Iraq, where its fighters are holed up in mountainous areas.
However, the organization usually exploits the departure of the residents of remote rural areas in central Syria in order to collect truffles, in preparation for selling them, in order to launch attacks against them.
Last week, terrorists attacked about 75 people while they were working to collect truffles in the Palmyra area in the eastern countryside of Homs, where the organization took advantage of the chaos caused by the earthquake in the past days by launching an attack on February 12, which resulted in the killing of 10 civilians in addition to a member of the regime forces in the middle of the attack. Syria.
