Attacks in the Syrian province of Sweida killed 215 people on Wednesday, the director of health in the southwestern province told the pro-government Sham FM.
Islamic State said it had carried out the seemingly coordinated attacks, which included suicide bombings, in several villages and the provincial capital, also called Sweida.
Syrian Agency Sana reports that 27 citizens were killed and others were injured on Wednesday morning in a suicide terrorist bombing in Sweida city.
SANA reports that that a suicide bomber blew himself up in the area of al-Souq in Sweida city, as a number of citizens were martyred and others were injured.
The report added that the competent authorities hunted down and killed two of the terrorist suicide bombers before they blew themselves up.
AP, quotes the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says a series of what appeared to be suicide blasts in the southern province killed 32 people, including the attackers. The different tolls could not immediately be reconciled.
The rare attacks in Sweida coincide with a government offensive in southern Syria, where troops are fighting an IS-affiliated group near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights area and other areas in the south.
Government forces have previously retaken territories controlled by the rebels in the border area and are now fighting militants there.
In a relevant context, army units confronted Daesh (ISIS) terrorist attack on al-Matouneh village to the north of Sweida city, Douma, Tima and al-Shabaki in Sweida northeastern countryside.
