State TV rolled footage from the scene of the blast, showing large-scale damage to buildings, vast amounts of rubble strewn across the road with plumes of smoke rising.
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A truck packed with explosives first blew up near the Turkish border.
Meanwhile, the national Syrian TV said 31 people were killed and over 170 others wounded by two blasts in Qamishli.
A news agency linked to ISIS said Wednesday the terror group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Northern Syria.
Qamishli acts as the de facto capital of the self-declared Kurdish autonomous region of Rojava.
The predominantly Kurdish US-backed Syria Democratic Forces have been the main force fighting Isis in northern Syria and have captured wide areas from the extremists.
Qamishli is under the joint control of president Bashar al-Assad’s forces and the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which in April agreed to a ceasefire following days of deadly fighting for control of the city.
Qamishli, which is predominantly inhabited by Kurds, has regularly been targeted by bombings, many of which were claimed by Islamic State. The extremist group is fighting against the USA -backed Kurdish YPG forces in the Hasaka and Aleppo provinces of Syria and has carried out a number of similar attacks in Kurdish areas before.
The IS so-called news agency (Amaq) claims the target was a government building with a Kurdish police station. “Over 100 people were injured; the death toll number will increase”, the source said.
In a statement circulated on social media, it said the attack was carried out by a bomber in an explosives-laden truck.
The attack reportedly targeted a Kurdish security headquarters that was located nearby, according to the SOHR.
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Most of the victims were civilians who were lingering in the district that also houses a station for the Kurdish security forces. In July, an ISIS suicide bomb killed at least 16 people in Hasaka.
