Dozen killed, 50 wounded as blast rocks NW Aleppo Province
An explosion has reportedly hit the northwestern outskirts of Syria’s Aleppo Province, leaving at least a dozen people dead and some 50 others injured.
According to the reports, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast took place at a checkpoint near the town of Afrin on Sunday.
It further noted that most of the wounded were bus drivers, passengers and businessmen, some of them in critical condition.
Later in the day, Syrian media said a car bomb attack hit the city of Azaz, located northwest of Aleppo.
According to the reports, one person has been killed and an unspecified number of people injured in the explosion.
The blasts come as Takfiri terrorists occupying Aleppo City’s eastern parts have in recent weeks launched fatal assaults against civilians and government forces in the west.
The surge in such attacks comes as the terrorists have been taking heavy blows from Syrian government forces on the Aleppo battle ground.
Separately on Saturday, Syrian army forces seized a warehouse used by foreign-backed terrorists to store weapons in the west-central city of Hama as part of anti-terror operations underway across the Arab country.
Syria’s official SANA news agency reported on Friday that arms and military equipment such as rockets and mortars were confiscated from a house in Abi al-Fidaa, a suburb of Hama, while a number of terrorists were arrested.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Defense Ministry said several terrorists were killed in the districts of Buwaida, Tal al-Nasseriye, Kafr Zeta, al-Lahaya, al-Latamneh on the outskirts of Hama.
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