By News Desk
Violence has plagued Deraa in the months after rebel groups laid down their arms to take part in a reconciliation program promoted by Damascus
According to local media, five civilians were killed and 30 others were injured on 11 June after a landmine detonated near a car transporting wheat harvesters in the town of Deir al-Adas in the Deraa countryside.
A hospital official, however, told German news outlet Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) that eight people had been killed and 42 were injured, contradicting the reports of Syrian media. According to residents, the majority of the victims were women.
Deraa witnessed intense fighting between the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and extremist rebels throughout the course of the 12-year war, most recently during the offensive which took place last year.
Much of the landscape across this Syrian governorate holds unexploded land mines left behind by militants.
