JUST IN: Many Feared Killed In Bomb Incident
At least 19 persons were killed when a car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city on Monday.
Of the persons killed in the incident, 18 were women while one wasn’t, more than a dozen persons were said to have been wounded Mohammad Ahmad, told The Associated Press.
A resident said the car that detonated was parked on the roadside.
The recurring attacks have forced residents to become more vigilant, the resident noted.
“There are efforts from the people of Manbij to focus on protecting some neighborhoods as well as setting up surveillance cameras in the main neighborhoods of the city,” Jameel al-Sayyed, a Manbij activist and journalist said.
Mustafa warned that the attacks in Aleppo province near Syria’s second city are a threat to Syria’s progress to bring about post-war security and economic recovery. Most of the explosions took place at night.”
“The continued attacks on Syrian civilian areas and targeting civilians while they are trying to recover from the effects of the war of the defunct Assad regime … threaten their lives, deepens their humanitarian tragedy, undermines educational and agricultural activities and livelihoods, and worsens the humanitarian situation in Syria,” Mustafa said.
“The car detonated next to a vehicle carrying mostly female agricultural workers on the outskirts of the city of Manbij. The detonation happened to be the seventh car bomb explosion in Manbij in just over a month,” said Munir Mustafa, the deputy director of civil defence.
Another 15 women were wounded, some of them in critical condition, according to the local Syrian civil defense.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion.
Manbij in northeastern Aleppo province continues to witness violence even after the downfall of President Bashar Assad in December.
The SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) in a statement condemned the attack and accused Ankara-backed groups of possibly being involved in order to cause more internal strife in the country.
The statement said they would communicate with Syria’s new interim government in Damascus to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attack.
