DAMASCUS, Sept 14 (NNN-SANA) – At least 25 people were killed and wounded, when a car bomb went off in Syria’s rebel-held Afrin city, in northern Syria on Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a violent explosion rocked Afrin, which is controlled by Turkey-backed rebels, in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, when a car bomb went off near the rebels’ headquarters.
It said that at least one person was killed while the rest are wounded, some in critical conditions.
Afrin, a predominantly-Kurdish enclave near the Turkish border, fell to the Turkish-led rebels in Mar, 2018, which led to the displacement of thousands of Kurdish people.
The area had been controlled by Kurdish militiamen, mainly the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which is regarded as a terror group by Turkey.
Several explosions rocked the city, since it fell to the Turkey-backed rebels.
Around 350,000 people were displaced from Afrin, when the Ankara-backed rebels took control.– NNN-SANA
