Car bomb attack kills one, injures 20 in northwestern Syrian town

At least one civilian has been killed and nearly two dozen others sustained injuries after a car bomb blast struck near a medical center in Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo.

Local sources, requesting not to be named, said the incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon in the city of Azaz, roughly 32 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of Aleppo, killing a 10-year-old girl and wounding 20 others.

 A health official said the death toll may rise as some of the injured were in critical condition.

The sources added that the explosion caused the closure of Ibn Zaidun primary school, and caused extensive damage to a number of houses and shops nearby.

On October 6, at least five people, including two children, were killed in a car bomb attack in the same Syrian town.

According to a report by the so-called Syrian observatory for Human Rights group, the powerful blast occurred after an explosives-laden vehicle went off at the entrance of the industrial district of Azaz.

The UK-based monitor also said that the blast took place near a tanker filled with fuel, sending up large pillars of smoke as a raging fire engulfed the area.

Turkey’s pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper reported that at least 27 people had sustained injuries in the explosion and the subsequent blaze.

The wounded were said to be rushed across the border to Turkey’s Kilis Public Hospital to receive due treatment.

Syrian army soldiers find Israeli-made anti-tank weapons in militant position

Separately, Syrian government troops launched a counter-terrorism operation in Nawa city of the southwestern province of Dara’a, and discovered a considerable amount of munitions as well as medicine in a stronghold belonging to foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants.

Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that there were Israeli-built M72 LAW portable and unguided anti-tank weapons among the uncovered arms. 

Seven mass graves found in Syria's Dayr al-Zawr

Furthermore, seven mass graves, containing hundreds of unidentified bodies, have been unearthed near the former Daesh stronghold of Abu Kamal in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr near the border with Iraq.

SANA reported that most of the bodies recovered so far at the site appear to “have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment before execution at the hands of Daesh terrorists.”

Work was under way to retrieve the rest of the bodies from the graves, the report added.

“After examining the remains, it appears that most of the people were executed by bullets to the head, while their hands were tied,” an unidentified Syrian military commander said in a video.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The Syrian government says the Israeli regime and its Western and regional allies are aiding Takfiri terrorist groups wreaking havoc in the country.

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