22 killed in fresh clashes near Syria's Damascus, says monitoring group

Damascus [Syria], May 1: Twenty-two people have been killed in clashes in a town on the outskirts of Damascus, as armed groups attacked civilians and security forces, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
"Sixteen members of the Syrian security forces were killed and six members of the Druze community were killed in the clashes," the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Rami Abdel Rahman, told DPA. Earlier, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said 11 people were killed.
Since late Tuesday, armed groups have been firing on civilian and public security vehicles on the roads, while other assailants attacked a checkpoint in the town of Sahnaya, to the south of the capital, SANA reported. (DPA)
Source: Qatar Tribune