The provincial police reported that hooded gunmen on a motorcycle shot at the official while he was in the center of the city, killing him instantly.

Earlier this month, terrorists assassinated Abdul-Ilah Al-Fadil, a member of the ruling Baath Party secretariat in the city of Nawa, while an Internal Security Forces officer was injured in a bomb attack on his car in the neighboring province of Quneitra.

Syria faces a war imposed since 2011, and although its army, with the support of its allies Russia and Iran, liberated most of the national territory from radicals, some attacks take place that Damascus attributes to groups supported from abroad to continue destabilizing the country.

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