International Desk: At least seven people were killed in a car explosion in Syria, a war-torn country in the Middle East. Another 30 people were injured in this incident.
The incident occurred during a busy market explosion in a rebel-held town near the Turkish border. Reuters reported this information in a report on 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, residents and rescue workers told Reuters.
They said that the explosion occurred during late-night shopping after Iftar in 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 explosion incident occurred 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, Reuters said. 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.
The Civil Defense Force said at least thirty people were injured in the latest blast, some of them seriously. The injured were later rescued and shifted to a local hospital.
Reuters says residents of the rebel-held northwest, which has a predominantly Arab population, and rebels have long suspected the Kurdish-led YPG of carrying out 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.
