Traffic police under Syrian opposition authority deploy across the streets of Aleppo, Syria, on December 19, 2024 [Getty]
A Syrian security official said a drone strike near Aleppo airport on Thursday killed two people, with state media reporting the attack but without saying who may be behind it.
According to news agency AFP, a vaporised car near the airport in Syria’s north was witnessed, with shrapnel scattered around it.
Official news agency SANA reported that “a drone targeted a civilian car on the road to Aleppo International Airport”.
Citing the health ministry, it added that at least one person was killed.
Ali al-Youssef, an official with the interior ministry’s security forces, told AFP that “two people who were in the car” were killed.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack.
Both Israel and a US-led coalition have carried out repeated drone strikes in Syria, but there was no immediate comment from either of them.
The coalition has often struck northern Syria targeting Islamic State (IS) group members.
In August, Syrian state television said coalition forces killed a senior IS leader in Atme, northwest Syria.