Deir Al Zor: Rebels blow up Assad's fuel tanks and depots

Dozens of Assad's forces and militias loyal to it were killed on Saturday in a successful operation conducted by Deir al-Zor rebels, activist reported.

The rebels blew up fuel tanks and ammunition stores in the regime’s security square near the military hospital in "Ghazi Ayyash." area, according to activists.

Deir al-Zor is the 6th largest city in Syria and the largest in the eastern part of Syria. Located 450 km (280 mi) to the northeast from the capital Damascus and most of its suburbs are under FSA control.

The fire resulted from the explosion, was difficult be put out despite regime’s fire brigades, and cost him dozens lives and many more wounded.

This fire was the result of rebel’s mortars which hit directly the ammunition stores.

Sources in the regime-held areas said that civilian cars and ambulances transported large numbers of dead bodies and injured people to the regime’s hospital near the southern entrance of the city.

The regime pulled back his tank from the burning security box to the Vanguard camps in the west of the city. Activists reported.

In a related development, sources revealed that the rebels killed the photographer "Omar Abdel-Kader," who works for a pro-regime TV “Al Mayadeen” during fierce clashes near the walls of Deir al-Zor military airport.

Rebels caused heavy losses in the ranks of soldiers and Shiite militias backing the regime, and destroyed a T-72 tank inside the airport with Concourse missile, civilian sources confirmed.

The missile was taken yesterday when rebels took over the strategic “Thardah” hill which overlook Deir al-Zor military airport.

As a result, bombardment and shelling escalated on the city’s liberated neighborhoods and towns around the airport, according to activists.

Regime’s artillery in “the youth buildings” west of Deir al-Zor bombed the liberated neighborhoods, while its jets committed a massacre in "Mohassan” town claiming the lives of tens of martyrs and wounding others, including women, children and complete families.

More pressure was imposed on the city’s neighborhood controlled by the regime, and random arrests were conducted on people solely for their IDs despite their age.

 Reporting by Dani Murad