At least 70 people have died and dozens have been injured in the coastal province of Latakia, in western Syria, during the violent clashes between the regular Syrian forces and armed features loyal to the deposed regime of President Bashar al Assad, as reported on Friday the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.
The agency, based in London and informants in the Arab country, has indicated in its social network account X that there are “more than 70 dead, dozens of injured and captured in bloody confrontations and ambush on the Syria coast Among members of the Ministries of Defense and Interior and armed men of the Army of the Extinct Regime “, although it has not specified the number of casualties of each side or civil victims.
Hours before, the Observatory had reported that 48 people had died, including four civilians, on the first day of Latakia clashes, while Damascus forces were sending “great reinforcements.”
Syrian authorities have activated a Large safety device in cankiawhere they have “neutralized” one of the loyal combatants to Al Assad and “arrested three others” that sought to attempt against the Directorate of Security of the Interior. In addition, they have imposed the curfew until 10 am on Friday both in Latakia and Tartús, according to the state news agency.
The Director of Public Security of the Province, Lieutenant Colonel Mustafá Knefati, has confirmed the sending of reinforcements by Damascus as well as “the fall of many martyrs and injured between (their) forces”, after “remnants” of the Assad attack against them in the Jableh area.
In this town there has been Detention of the former Chief of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence, Ibrahim Hueaijaaccused of “hundreds of murders during” Hafez’s mandate to Assad, father of the president fled to Russia, including that of the leader of the Lebanese Drusos, Kamal Jumblatt, in 1977.
The clashes have exploded on Thursday afternoon in the municipality of Beit Ana, when some of its residents prevented the arrest of a person suspected of arms trafficking, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights has pointed out.
Damascus forces have responded by launching Air attacks with helicoptersaccording to the images cast by the agency in his social network account X. A cameraman of the Panárabe chain Al Yazira has been injured while covering the fighting.
The transition authorities installed in Syria after the fall in December of the Bashar al Assad regime They launched a “large -scale” operation on Tuesday in Latakia After the death of two members of the security forces in an attack attached to militiamen loyal to the ex -president.
The president of Transition of Syria and leader of HTS, Ahmed al Shara, known by his war name, Abú Mohamed al Golani, made in mid -February two visits to the provinces of Latakia and Tartús, in which they were his first official displacements to them after the flight of Al Assad, which he had in these his main bastions until the collapse of his regime and rebels headed by Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS).
Source: Lasexta
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