Earlier reports said that 55 people were killed and more than 160 wounded in what activists said was a powerful blast that rocked Qamishli, which is near the Turkish border.
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Qamishli, one of the biggest cities in Hasakah province, is located just five kilometers from the Turkish border.
The group said 14 people died, but state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said at least 44 people were killed.
ISIS claimed responsibility and said one of its members drove a truck rigged with explosives to reach the Kurdish administrative complex where defense, interior and military recruiting departments operated. 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.
In Syria, 50 people have been killed and dozen wounded in a massive bombing in the Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishli.
The IS so-called news agency (Amaq) claims the target was a government building with a Kurdish police station.
It showed footage from the scene of the blast, with smoke rising from buildings and rubble from the blasts.
Rescue teams are still searching for victims under the rubble of the buildings hit by the attack, the sources added.
The attack was initially described as a double bombing, but local Kurdish officials said it was carried out by a single suicide bomber driving a lorry laden with explosives.
Another blast targeted the Kurdish forces outpost in the city.
ISIS claimed the attack in a statement circulated on social media, calling it “a response to the crimes committed by the crusader coalition aircraft” in the town of Manbij, an ISIS bastion in Syria’s Aleppo province.
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On June 19, three people were killed by a suicide bombing, while five Kurdish security personnel were killed late last April by another blast. The YPG captured large areas of territory from Islamic State in northeastern Syria past year and is involved in a US -backed offensive that has advanced against the jihadists further west near the Turkish border.
