Explosion in Syrian town on Turkish border kills 13
Turkeys govt blamed the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the Turkey-based PKK for inhuman attack.
TEL ABYAD (Reuters) - At least 13 people were killed and more than 30 injured in the Syrian town of Tel Abyad on Turkey’s border after a car bomb exploded in a market on Saturday (November 2), according to Turkish state media and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Tel Abyad is one of two major border towns that were the initial focus of Turkey’s cross-border assault in recent weeks to capture territory from Kurdish militia in northern Syria.
Turkey’s government blamed the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for the "inhuman attack". The Observatory said pro-Turkey fighters and civilians were among the dead and injured in the car explosion.
The town is where some of the heaviest fighting has taken place since the Turkish military launched its incursion last month in northeast Syria against the YPG, which for years was allied to the United States in the fight against Islamic State. A spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces, which includes the YPG, was not immediately available for comment.
