50 killed, 80 injured in 3 suicide blasts in NE Syria
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AT least 50 people were killed and 80 others were injured in a triple truck-bomb attack carried out by Islamic State in northeast Syria, a spokesman for the Kurdish militia that controls the area said yesterday.
The town in the northeastern province of Hasaka is controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, which has been battling Islamic State with the support of United States-led airstrikes.
Kurdish fighters have advanced in the past few weeks against Islamic State in Hasaka, notably with the takeover of the town of al Houl by a US-backed rebel alliance including YPG.
The three blasts, carried out by at least two suicide bombers, hit outside a hospital, at a market and in a residential area in the town of Tel Tamer late on Thursday, the YPG’s Redur Xelil said via Internet messaging service.
“There is massive destruction in the town, and the number killed is between 50 and 60, all of them civilians,” he said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave an earlier death toll of at least 22 people in the attack, saying that number was likely to increase.
Amaq News Agency, which supports Islamic State militants, said in a statement that the group had carried out the attack, targeting Kurdish “bases” in Tel Tamer with three suicide bombs.
The Observatory said one of the bombs exploded near a health center and another near a vegetable market.
It said there was “confirmed information” about casualties among the Kurdish internal security force known as the Asayish.
The YPG has been the most effective partner on the ground in Syria for the US-led coalition that is fighting Islamic State. In October, it became part of a new US-backed alliance, called the Democratic Forces of Syria.
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