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DAMASCUS: A crash between two passenger buses in a central-eastern desert region of Syria on Saturday killed at least 35 people, state media said.
News agency SANA, quoting a health ministry official, also said 30 others were injured in the “collision between two passenger buses on the Damascus-Deir Ezzor road”.
The interior ministry said the crash was between “a bus carrying a number of internal security forces personnel and a civilian bus”.
State media broadcast footage of the crash, including images of a bus on fire and with debris strewn along the highway, and reported that military helicopters had been deployed to airlift casualties from the scene.
