Motorcycle-riding gang rounded up a group of farmers working their fields outside Jangebe village in Talata Mafara district, residents said.

The fighting between Druze militias and Bedouin fighters in Sweida led to international requests for Syria to restore peace and prevent further violence, President Ahmed al Sharaa has said.

The ceasefire deal with rebels in a bid to end long-running unrest in the country's east and follows a separate Congolese-Rwandan peace deal signed in Washington last month.