LONDON: Syrian authorities have arrested a suspect linked to a 2020 car bomb attack in the town of Saajo, near Azaz in northern Syria, which killed five and injured dozens of people.
The Internal Security Command in Aleppo announced the capture of Hussein Hajj Mowas, from the village of Marran in Aleppo countryside. Officials said he was disguised in female attire in an attempt to escape when he was detained on Thursday.
According to the Ministry of Interior, Mowas carried out the bombing in exchange for money and used his job as a delivery truck driver to smuggle weapons and banned materials.
The July 2020 explosion in Saajo killed at least five people and wounded 85 others.
Since the fall of the Bashar Assad regime last December, the new government in Damascus has arrested several suspects and criminals, including army officers, over crimes committed during the country’s civil conflict.
