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The authorities send troops to defuse the situation after the fight against the Bedouins and the Druze.
The fighting between the Bedouin tribes and the local fighters in the predominantly city of Sweida, in southern Syria, killed several people.
Sunday clashes are the first epidemic of fatal violence in the region since the fighting between members of the Druze community and the security forces killed dozens of people in April and May.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitor based in Britain, said that at least eight people had been killed, six Druze and two Bedouins.
Citing medical sources, the local Sweida 24 local sale has given a preliminary assessment of seven killed people, “including a child, and about 32 others injured as a result of armed clashes and mutual bombardments in the Macs district”, east of the city of Sweida.
He also pointed out the closure of the Damascus-Sweida motorway due to violence.
A source from the Syrian government, speaking anonymously to the AFP news agency, said that the authorities had sent soldiers to defuse the situation.
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Sweida Governor Mustapha al-Bakour called on people to “exercise self-restraint and respond to national reform calls”.
The population of Druze in Syria has around 700,000, Sweida which houses the largest community in the sect.
The Bedouin and Druze factions have a longtime quarrel in Sweida, with violence that bursts occasionally.
Since the longtime reversal Syrian sovereign Bashar al-Assad In December, concerns were raised on the rights and security of minorities under the new authorities, which also had trouble restoring security more widely.
The clashes between the troops and the Druze fighters in April and May killed dozens of people, local leaders and religious figures signing agreements to contain climbing and better integrate Druze fighters into the new government.
