7 death in car explosion in war-torn Syria Another 30 people were injured in this incident.
The casualties occurred in a busy market explosion in a rebel-held town near the Turkish border. Sunday (March 31).
At least seven people were killed and 30 wounded when a car bomb exploded in a busy market in the rebel-held Syrian city of Azaz near the Turkish border on Saturday.
The blast happened during late night shopping after Iftar during the holy month of Ramadan.
A man named Yasin Shalabi was shopping with his family near the blast site when the incident happened. He said, “This incident of explosion took place in a huge crowd of buyers. However, no one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.
The last such car explosion occurred two years ago in the Arab-populated city, which is controlled by Syrian rebel groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and backed by Turkey. Since then the city has been relatively quiet.
However, in recent years there have been frequent bombings of civilian areas in major cities along Syria’s northwestern border region.
At least thirty people were injured in the latest blast, some of them critically. The injured were later rescued and shifted to a local hospital.
Residents and rebels in the rebel-held northwest, full of a predominantly Arab population, have long suspected the Kurdish-led YPG of such attacks.
Originally they controlled large areas east of the Euphrates in northeastern Syria and northern Syria. However, the YPG has long denied such claims.
Others, however, blame groups loyal to President Assad for such attacks.
