Blast in Syria's Daraa injures 15 govt security forces - interior ministry

BEIRUT, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Fifteen members of Syrian government internal security forces were injured on Monday when an explosive device detonated as they were travelling on a bus in the southern region of Daraa, the Syrian interior ministry said in a statement.

Seven were seriously injured, the statement said. It did not assign blame for the explosion, which it said took place on the main Damascus-Daraa highway near the Khirbet Ghazaleh bridge.

Reporting by Timour Azhari; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne

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