Damascus, July 14 (SANA) One person was killed and 27 others injured in 19 traffic accidents across Syria over the past 24 hours, while the death toll from Sunday’s ferry sinking in Deir Ezzor rose to six after rescue teams recovered two more bodies, the Syrian Civil Defense said on Tuesday.
The Civil Defense said its teams responded to 19 traffic accidents during the reporting period, providing first aid to the injured, transporting them to hospitals and securing the accident sites.
It also responded to 124 fires nationwide, including two involving agricultural fields and crops and 122 separate incidents affecting homes, commercial premises, vegetation, trees, garbage and electrical infrastructure. All fires were extinguished, with damage limited to material losses.
Meanwhile, search operations continued for victims of Sunday’s ferry accident in Deir Ezzor, where two additional bodies were recovered on Tuesday, raising the confirmed death toll to six.
Osama Arabo, operations commander at the Directorate of Emergency and Disaster Management in Deir Ezzor, told SANA that the victims were an eight-year-old girl whose body was recovered near the town of Marat and a young man found near Hawijat Saqr.
The bodies were transferred to the city’s National Hospital before being handed over to their families. The confirmed fatalities now include four children and two young men.
The Civil Defense said the ferry, carrying more than 35 civilians, including women and children, suffered a mechanical failure before being swept away by the current into the Euphrates and colliding with a newly installed military bridge late Sunday.
Rescue teams, working alongside local residents and personnel from the Ministries of Health and Defense, rescued 15 people. Search operations for those still missing entered a third consecutive day on Tuesday.
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