Car bomb kills 15 in northern Syria: hospital workers

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Car bomb kills 15 in northern Syria: hospital workers

A car bomb has killed at least 19 people in the northern Syrian city of Manbij, the second attack there in three days and Syria’s deadliest since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power in December.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack in Manbij, located 30km from the Turkish border.

Hospital workers identified the dead as 18 women and one man, and said another 15 women were wounded.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) condemned the car bombing, accusing Turkey-backed factions of using such bombings and violence to intimidate local residents.

The victims were agricultural workers and the death toll was likely to increase, a civil defence official told Reuters.

Manbij has changed hands numerous times during Syria’s 13-year war, most recently in December when Turkish-backed groups captured it from the US-backed SDF, which is led by the Kurdish YPG militia.

The SDF had taken Manbij from Islamic State fighters in 2016.

On Saturday, a car bomb in Manbij killed four civilians and wounded nine others, including children, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported.

Assad was ousted from power on December 8 after a lightning offensive by the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, whose leader Ahmed al-Sharaa was declared Syria’s transitional president last week.

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