Bomb Hits Bus Transporting Police in South Syria, Wounding 15

Fire billows from a burning vehicle following a reported car bomb explosion in the opposition-held town of Azaz in northern Syria on May 3, 2017. (AFP)

A roadside bomb targeting a bus transporting Syrian police in the country’s south Monday wounded 15 of the officers, the Interior Ministry said.

The ministry said in a terse statement that the officers were returning to the capital Damascus from the southern province of Daraa. The bomb exploded on the north-south highway near the town of Khirbet Ghazaleh.