Bomb attack kills 16 people in northeast Syria
More than a dozen people including at least 10 members of the Kurdish Asayesh security force have been killed in a bomb attack in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakah.
The head of the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, said a bomber, driving a vehicle, targeted Asayesh local headquarters in al-Qamishli city, located on the border with Turkey and 680 kilometers (420 miles) northeast of Damascus, on Wednesday. “It was a massive explosion,” Abdel Rahman added.
Six civilians also died in the bombing, the observatory stated.
The Takfiri terrorist group Daesh claimed responsibility for the bomb attack in an online statement. The attacker used a "water tanker rigged with explosives to infiltrate" the station of the Kurdish security force, the statement said.
Qamishli, which is jointly controlled by Kurdish and Syrian government forces, has witnessed a number of bomb attacks over the past few months.
Two bombs hit the Kurdish-majority city on July 27, wounding at least three people.
The first blast struck a patrol of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), leaving three people wounded.
The second bomb targeted Asayesh security personnel; however, no one sustained injuries.
The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which flared in March 2011, has reportedly claimed more than 240,000 lives up until now.
The United Nations (UN) says the militancy has displaced more than 7.2 million Syrians internally, and compelled over four million others to take refuge in neighboring countries, including Jordan and Lebanon.
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