A car bomb blast has killed a Druze leader among others and injured dozens more in southwestern Syria, according to a monitoring group.
Friday's explosion on the outskirts of Suweida killed Sheikh Wahid al-Balous, who opposed both the Syrian government and armed groups fighting against it, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
A separate blast that occurred around the same time in Suweida killed and wounded dozens of people, the Syrian Observatory said.
"Sheikh Wahid al-Balous was killed in a car-bomb attack as he was driving on the outskirts of Suweida city," Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory, said.
He said a second car bomb struck near the hospital in the Dahr al-Jabal neighbourhood where the wounded were being taken.