Four Syrian drug smugglers killed near Jordan border

Shootout with guards

At least four Syrian drug smugglers were killed and several were injured after a shootout at the weekend with Jordanian army patrols near the Syrian-jordanian border, residents and security officials said on Sunday. They said local nomads had found some bodies near the border area south of Syria's southern Sweida province during a search for missing smugglers who had been part of a large operation involving tens of smugglers. “There is a group of smugglers among those dead who are still missing,” said Rayan Maarouf, a civic activist in the majority Druze province of Sweida, suggesting more bodies have yet to be found.