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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

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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