DAMASCUS: Three truck bomb attacks have killed at least 50 people and injured 80 others in Northeastern Syria.
Kurdish militia spokesperson on Friday said that the town in the northeastern province of Hasaka was controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, which has been battling Islamic State with the support of U.S.-led air strikes.
Kurdish fighters have advanced in the last few weeks against Islamic State in Hasaka province, notably with the takeover of the town of al Houl by a U.S.-backed rebel alliance that includes the 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.
