{"id":139483,"date":"2026-07-25T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=139483"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:25:54","slug":"bus-crash-on-deir-ez-zor-damascus-road-kills-at-least-19-injures-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/139483\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus crash on Deir ez-Zor-Damascus road kills at least 19, injures 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> At least 19 people were killed and 27 others injured in a bus collision on the Deir ez-Zor-Damascus road, Syrian state media and officials said on Saturday, while local authorities said the toll could rise as rescue operations continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deir ez-Zor&#8217;s Media Directorate told North Press that about 40 people were killed or injured in the crash and that rescue teams were continuing to recover charred bodies from one of the two buses involved. 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