Bomb attacks kill 44 in northern Syria town
Jul 27, 2016 04:19 UTC
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Residents look at the blast site after an explosion in the Syrian city of Qamishli, July 27, 2016.
A massive bomb attacked has killed at least 44 people in the northern Syrian town of Qamishli, state media say.
At least 140 people were also injured when a terrorist in a vehicle laden with explosives blew himself up in a western neighborhood of the city on Wednesday, the official SANA news agency said.
The Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack which was initially described as a double bombing.
Qamishli, on the border with Turkey, is dominated by Syrian Kurds.
According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the explosions targeted a local police station and the headquarters of the local administration for the Hasaka Province.
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