Car bombings kill 11 in pro-Turkey north Syria

At
least 11 people, including six civilians, were killed in two separate car
bombings in the Turkish-held northern Syria on Sunday, a monitoring group said
according to AFP.

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the first attack, that killed at least six civilians, took place near a cultural center in the town of Azaz.

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While
the second car bombing targeted a checkpoint of pro-Ankara rebels near the town
of Al-Bab. It killed at least five fire-fighters.

Sunday’s attack marks the second such bombing of the week in the region after explosives
planted in another vehicle on Saturday claimed eight lives in Afrin, a city seized by Turkish forces from  Kurdish troops in 2018.

Earlier, in January,
one civilian was killed in the town of Jindires in the Afrin region in a
similar incident of car bombing. The same day, another similar attack near a
vegetable market Turkish-held border town of Ras al-Ain killed five people,
including two children.

Before this a car bomb went off near a bakery in Afrin
and claimed almost  killing three lives
while leaving 16 injured in November.

The ghastly war prevalent in Syria since 2011 has killed more than 387,000 people and displaced millions since its onset and became a reason behind brutal repression of those protest against the government.

Generally
no group claims responsibility of such attacks in the region but Turkey usually
blames Kurdish fighter for such bombings.