At least 12 civilians, including two girls and a woman, were killed on Sunday by the latest car bombings in northwest Syria.
The pro-opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that six people were killed and about 20 injured by an explosion in the center of Azaz, in northern Aleppo Province near the Turkish-Syrian border.
The first moments of transporting the wounded as a result of a car bomb explosion in the city of Azaz, north of Aleppo pic.twitter.com/zzB9s2Ltth
— FARED_ALHOR (@FARED_ALHOR) January 31, 2021
Six people were reportedly killed and about 30 injured in Afrin city by a vehicle bomb on Saturday. Children were reportedly among the casualties.
Scores of civilians have been slain by periodic bombings in the area in recent months. One person was killed and six wounded in a market hall in Sajo village, near Azaz, on January 17.
No group has taken responsibility for the blasts, but Turkish officials blame the Syrian Kurdish militia YPG. Kurdish outlets cite “chaos…amid the inability of the controlling Turkish-backed armed opposition groups to control security”.
Turkey and anti-Assad fighters took over much of the Kurdish canton of Afrin, also in the northwest, in early 2018.
VBIED attacks in TFSA-held areas in Northern Aleppo seem to be rising, with 3 such attacks in the region since yesterday. Yesterday, a VBIED detonated in Afrin city, killing 6 people and injuring around 30. Most of these attacks are the work of YPG cells pic.twitter.com/JI4EzZVh84
— Hugo Kaaman (@HKaaman) January 31, 2021
In a third incident, five anti-Assad fighters were reportedly killed when a car bomb struck their checkpoint near the town of Al-Bab in northern Aleppo Province.
