Daraa-Sana
The competent authorities, in cooperation with the people in the city of Daraa, seized quantities of medium and light weapons, various ammunitions and communication devices in several areas of the governorate.
A source in the competent authorities said in a statement to SANA reporter that “after the settlement operations that included the entire province of Daraa and the citizens’ sense of stability and reassurance, a large number of people took the initiative to hand over weapons and equipment they had to the Syrian Arab Army.”
In a related context, the source stated that the competent authorities and units of the army carried out raids on a number of houses and farms in the countryside of the governorate, based on accurate information, and confiscated quantities of weapons and ammunition from them, in parallel with continuing to perform their duty to monitor and pursue smuggling operations, where another amount of weapons and ammunition was seized. Smugglers were preparing it to smuggle out of the province.
The source explained that the seized weapons included PKC machine guns, a large number of automatic rifles, RPGs with their fillings, snipers, Dushka machine gun bullets, a 14.5 mm machine gun, a 122 mm mortar with shells, grenades, communication devices, a small reconnaissance plane, and packages. explosives and anti-armor mines.”
The competent authorities in Daraa continue combing and inspection operations within the areas that joined the settlement agreement that the Syrian state proposed last August, in cooperation with the people and dignitaries, with the aim of enhancing the state of security and stability in the province.
