Eight persons have been reported killed and twenty gotten injured as a car trapped with bomb exploded in Syria.
confirming the attack the defence minister said “Eight civilians lost their lives and more than 20 were wounded in an attack by a booby-trapped vehicle,”
The statement blamed the attack on the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, viewed by Ankara as an offshoot of the Kurdish PKK, which has fought an insurgency inside Turkey for the past 35 years.
But affirmed that the force was until recently backed by Washington in the US fight against jihadist fighters in Syria.
The attack happened in Suluk, a village about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, according to Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Observatory gave a lower death toll, saying five people were killed and 13 wounded, with both civilians and fighters among the dead. It did not say who carried out the attack.
AFP
