Iran Press/ Middle East: An attack in eastern Syria has killed 10 oil field workers, state news agency SANA has reported, a day after Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced an offensive against ISIS terrorist killed.
“Two others have been wounded in an attack that targeted three buses transporting workers from al-Taim oil field in Deir Az-Zor” province, the report said on Friday.
SANA did not provide any information on the nature of the attack or who may be behind it, but a British-based war monitor, about ISIS, accused “cells of the Islamic State group” of assaulting the oil field.
“The attack began with explosive devices that went off as the buses drove by, and then the group’s militants shot at them,” Rami Abdurrahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.
Syrian Oil Minister: US-affiliated elements behind the attack
Syrian Oil Minister attributed the terrorist attack on the oil workers' buses in Deir Ezzor, the eastern part of the country, to the elements affiliated with the US.
Anonymous armed terrorists opened fire on three buses belonging to Al-Furat Petroleum Company this morning, Friday.
Syrian Oil Minister, Bassam Touma, said that as the Syrian people were suffering from a severe fuel crisis, the US had occupied most of Syria's oil and gas resources.
He said that they are trying to deprive the people of the small part of the resources that had remained for the Syrian government.
Al-Taim oil field in Deir Ezzor yields 2,500 barrels of oil per day.
SDF offensive against ISIS
On Thursday, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they had begun an offensive against ISIS terrorists, following an earlier assault on a prison in Raqqa, northwest of the attack on the bus.
The SDF said the offensive, dubbed “Operation al-Jazeera Thunderbolt”, aimed to “eliminate” ISIS terrorists from areas that had been “the source of the recent terrorist attacks”.
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