At least 15 killed in north Syria car bomb attack: Civil defense
At least 15 killed in north Syria car bomb attack: Civil defense
M.U.H
03/02/202553
Syria’s Civil Defense Organization has reported the death of at least 15 people, including 14 women, in a car bomb attack targeting agricultural workers in the northern Syrian city of Manbij.
“A horrific massacre claimed the lives of 14 women and one man, in addition to injuring 15 [other] women, some seriously, which suggests that the death toll will rise,” the body said on Monday.
“All of them were agricultural workers, according to the initial toll of a car bomb explosion next to a car that was transporting agricultural workers, on a main road on the outskirts of Manbij, east of [the city of] Aleppo,” it added.
The attack marked the deadliest one to be carried out in the areas, which used to host a heavy presence of the United States-backed so-called Syrian Democratic Forces militant group, since the ouster of the Arab country’s democratically-elected government of Bashar al-Assad at the hands of Western- and Israeli-backed militants.
On January 26, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based so-called monitor, reported that militants affiliated with the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that overran the entire country during the takeover, had carried out 35 summary executions over the previous 72 hours alone.