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Sputnik said in Daraa governorate: “An explosive device targeted the car of the head of the anti-drug branch in Daraa governorate, but he was not inside,” noting that “3 members of the branch owners in the governorate were injured. , one of them was seriously injured. “
She explained: “The attack took place in the Al-Kashef neighborhood in the city of Daraa on the road leading to the Al-Hamama roundabout, so the competent authorities, internal security personnel and the head of the Provincial police immediately went to the scene of the explosion to find out the reasons and follow-up of the investigations.
Daraa Governorate Police Commander Brigadier General Dirar Dandal said: “This terrorist act will not deter police officers from fulfilling their duties to maintain public safety and pursue wanted persons, noting that the drug traffickers are more dangerous than terrorism itself. “
He added that “one of the injured officers was seriously injured and that the explosion was caused by an explosive device placed by terrorists in the car of the head of the Sub-Directorate of Narcotics Control.”
Medical sources indicated that “first aid was given to the seriously wounded element, and after managing to stop the bleeding he was suffering, he was immediately transferred to the (police hospital) in the capital, Damascus.”
The attempt to target the head of the drug control branch in Daraa is a crucial indication that the drug trade in southern Syria is taking an organized and dangerous trend.
It can also be seen as an attempt to respond to the siege that the competent authorities have imposed on drug trafficking operations within the governorate and across the borders, after years of the border areas between Syria and Jordan being out of the control of the government. Syrian state. during which this trade has grown in jeopardy.
After large areas of Daraa spiraled out of control in recent years, the governorate suffered a significant escalation in drug trafficking and border areas controlled by armed organizations became smuggling crossings into Jordan.
This escalation reflects a corresponding increase in arrests of drug gangs as they tried to transport large shipments across the Syrian-Jordanian border.
Days ago, one of the Syrian security services operating in Daraa managed to thwart an attempt to smuggle some 100 kilograms of narcotic hashish to the Jordanian border, wrapped in 593 bags that were placed in the trunk of a car and hidden with a layer of iron.
For its part, the Jordanian army announced on March 24 that it had destroyed a vehicle carrying (765) kilograms of hashish and (3,280,000) Captagon pills and ammunition for firearms, while trying to cross from Syrian territory to Jordanian territory. , indicating that the people who were in it in the depths of Syria. “
