Qamishli, one of the biggest cities in Hasakah province, is located just five kilometers from the Turkish border.
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Rescue teams continue to clear the debris, recovering injured and dead bodies from under the rubble, the SANA news agency reported.
Abdel Rahman told dpa earlier a auto bomb targeted the Justice Department and Kurdish internal security force in the town, which is located in al-Hasaka province.
Kurdish news agency Rudaw said the explosion was the result of a double attack. “Nothing was left of it”, she said.
Two bomb blasts killed at least 48 people and wounded 170 more in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Wednesday, according to a monitoring group.
Syrians gather at the site of a bomb attack in Syria’s northeastern city of Qamishli.
Meanwhile the USA is exploiting an enormous amount of digital information about the IS obtained by Syrian rebels who are fighting for control of the city of Manbij, a spokesman for the American-led military coalition said. Humanitarian groups have warned of a major catastrophe if the siege on the rebel-held parts of Aleppo continued. The first was caused by a truck loaded with explosives that targeted a center run by the Kurdish police force.
Last year, a US-backed alliance led by Kurdish fighters, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), launched an offensive against IS in Hassakeh. Its fighters are now being besieged in Manbij.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for one of Wednesday’s bombings. The recent attacks in Germany and France were claimed by the group, which had urged its supporters around the world to take the war outside of Iraq and Syria.
The city was previously the target of IS bombings, most recently in April.
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ISIS has carried out a number of bombings in Qamishli, which is in Hasaka province, and in Hasaka city, the provincial capital.
