Gunmen killed at least 15 people in Syria, mostly government soldiers travelling on a bus, in the second such road ambush in recent days, a war monitor said Monday.
The attack late Sunday resulted in the deaths of eight soldiers, four allied fighters and three civilians, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, updating an earlier toll.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the monitor said the Islamic State jihadist group was to blame.
Another 15 people were wounded, with cars and fuel tankers also attacked, in the Wadi al-Azib area of Hama province.
Syria’s official news agency SANA said the “terrorist attack” killed nine people, all civilians.
Last week, IS said it had ambushed a bus on December 30 in Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province, killing at least 37 soldiers.
IS in 2014 overran large parts of Syria and Iraq and proclaimed a cross-border “caliphate” before multiple offensives in the two countries led to its territorial defeat.
The group was…