Syria rebel leader killed in Golan car bombing

No group has taken credit for the car bombing, which killed the leader of Syria Revolutionaries Front and 17 others.

Syrian rebels have fought both the Assad government and one another in the Golan region

A car bombing targeting an influential Syrian rebel group has killed at least 18 people in Quneitra province of the country's south, as opposition groups elsewhere in Syria accused the government of breaching a truce.

Late on Wednesday, the car bomb targeted the Syria Revolutionaries Front's local finance office in al-Ashe, a village on the outskirts of southern Quneitra near the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.


Among those killed was the armed group's leader Muhammad al-Qairi, also known as Abu Hamza al-Naimi, as well as three other leaders, local sources told Al Jazeera. No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing. 

"Unfortunately, civilians who were near by were among those killed," said Abu Omar al-Jolani, a Quneitra-based media activist who was present at the time of the blast.

In addition to a "metre-deep hole in the street", the explosion destroyed the SRF's finance office and badly damaged several nearby residential buildings, he added.