A suicide bombing killed 35 people, including women and children, in northern Syria on Wednesday, state media reported.
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An AFP reporter in the city said that the first explosion was caused by a suicide bomber who blew himself up inside a large truck by a checkpoint near local Kurdish adminstration ministries.
Qamishli, near the Turkish border, is mainly controlled by Kurds but Syrian government forces are present and control the town’s airport.
According to a UK-based monitoring group, the so-called Islamic State (IS) has assumed responsibility for the attack in the Hassakeh province, near the Turkish border. Two people were slightly hurt in Nusaybin, a witness said.
It said one of the bombs exploded near a security headquarters of the Kurdish administration that controls most of Hasaka province, where Qamishli is located.
“The initial number of the victims of the blast that targeted the eastern district of the town also includes 140 injuries, while there are still dead bodies under the debris [that have not been retrieved yet]”, Qamishli National Hospital Director Omar Al-Qaqoub said.
Earlier this month, the deadliest terror attack in Baghdad in years killed almost 300 people when a suicide truck bomb plowed into a busy shopping district.
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The predominantly Kurdish U.S. -backed Syria Democratic Forces have been the main force fighting IS in northern Syria and have captured wide areas from the extremists.
