BEIRUT — A strike on a pro-Iran militia
convoy in eastern
Syria near the Iraqi border killed at least 14 people
overnight, a war monitor said Wednesday, without specifying who carried it out.
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The attack hit a convoy of “fuel tankers and trucks
loaded with weapons,” in the the Albu Kamal area of the border, the
Britain-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The US-led coalition told reporters in Iraq that it
had no involvement in the raid.
An official of the Iraqi border guard said the
trucks were transporting fuel from Iran to Lebanon overland through Iraq and
Syria.
He said the convoy consisted of 22 tanker trucks, of
which 10 were hit. Four trucks were “completely burnt”, he added.
The Britain-based observatory said at least 14
people were killed in the strike. It said a nearby militia position was also
hit.
Contacted by AFP,
a spokeswoman for the US-led coalition said that the strike was not carried out
by the US or any other coalition country.
Pro-Iran militias have a major presence around the
Iraq-Syria border and are heavily deployed south and west of the Euphrates in
Syria’s Deir Ezzor province.
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