Two separate car bomb blasts shook Turkish-controlled north Syria killing eight people, involving two civilians, a Britain-based war monitor said on Tuesday, reported AFP.

Explosives positioned in the car of a senior policeman from another district were exploded and killed him, including other two policemen and two civilians on the suburbs of the town of Al-Bab, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

It also mentioned that 19 people were injured.

Another incident took place in the town of Afrin where a car bomb went off near a bakery, killing three people and wounding 16 others.

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Turkey and its Syrian proxies have hegemonised many areas of territory on Syria’s side of the border following three military incursions since 2016, against Islamic State group (IS) and Kurdish fighters.

No one claimed the responsibility for either bombing.

Since its capture by Turkish troops from IS in 2017, there have been a string of attacks in Al-Bab.

Several have also hit Afrin, which Turkey and its Syrian proxies seized from Kurdish fighters in 2018.

UN humanitarian official Mark Cutts condemned the incidents stating “another horrific car-bomb in Al-Bab today with more civilian casualties”.

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US-supported Kurdish forces captured the last scrap of that territorial proto-state from the jihadists in eastern Syria in March last year.