Oil workers killed in Islamic State attack in Syria

Syrian state media said IS fighters ambushed buses carrying the employees in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province.
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A pump jack operates in an oil field in the countryside of al-Qahtaniyah town in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province near the Turkish border, on March 11, 2020. - DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images
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Several oil workers were killed by the Islamic State (IS) in eastern Syria today. 

IS fighters ambushed two buses carrying the workers back from work in the al-Kharata oil field in the southwest of the Deir ez-Zor province. Ten were killed and another was injured, Syria’s official news outlet SANA reported. 

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