Five Dead, 85 Wounded in Car Bomb Attack in Syria’s Azaz: Turkish State Media
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The incident happened within the village of Siccu, around the border from Turkey’s southern province of Kilis, Turkey’s Anadolu company stated.
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A automobile bomb assault in northwestern Syria’s Azaz area killed 5 folks and wounded 85 others, a neighborhood health center in Syria and Turkish state media stated on Sunday.
The incident happened within the village of Siccu, around the border from Turkey’s southern province of Kilis, Turkey’s Anadolu company stated.
It stated 15 of the wounded have been taken to a health center at the Turkish facet of the border and that some have been in crucial situation.
Azaz has been below the regulate of rebels subsidized by means of Turkey since Ankara’s first incursion into Syria in 2016, in an operation that aimed to pressure away Islamic State militants and the Syrian Kurdish YPG military from its border with Syria.
Ankara regards the US-backed YPG as a terrorist organisation. The operation resulted in 2017.
Syria held a parliamentary election throughout govt territory on Sunday. The rustic is suffering towards a collapsing economic system and new US sanctions after President Bashar al-Assad clawed again regulate of many of the nation.
