10 killed, 2 injured in terrorist attack on Syrian oil workers in deir Ezzor

DEIR EZZOR, Dec. 30 (YPA) – At least ten Syrian workers were killed and 2 others injured in a terrorist attack that targeted three buses carrying workers in the al-Taym oil field in Deir Ezzor, state-run SANA news agency reported on Friday.

According to SANA, minister of Oil and Mineral Resources, Bassam Tohme, said that “The Syrian people are suffering from an oil crisis, and the American occupation, through its mercenaries and terrorist groups, wants to cut off the available oil part that secures the minimum needs of the Syrian people, and therefore they carried out this blatant attack on cars Shifts of workers of al-Tayyem field at al-Furat Company.”

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