Another car exploded on the outskirts of a northern city Syria Monday, killing at least 20 people and leaving more than a dozen injured, said officials and emergency workers.
At least 18 women were killed in the bombings, a local hospital nurse told the Associated Press Mohammad Ahmad.
15 other women were injured, some in critical condition, according to local civil defense.
No group immediately claimed the responsibility of the explosion that occurred next to a vehicle carrying agricultural workers on the outskirts of Manbij.
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It was the seventh automotive bombing in Manbij in more than a month, said Mustafa, deputy director of civil defense, warning that attacks near the second city in Syria are a threat to Syria’s efforts to cause the security and post-war economic recovery.
Manbij, in the northeast of the province of Aleppo Fall of President Bashar Assad in an insurgent offensive.
Factions supported by the Turks known as the Syrian national army clashed with the Syrian democratic forces led by the United States. The factions took the city of the homeless in early December during the insurrection.
Shortly after the accusations against the homeless surfaced on social networks, the homeless in a statement condemned the attack on Monday and accused groups supported by Ankara of getting involved in order to provoke more conflicts in Syria.
The press release indicates that the SDF will communicate with the new interim government of Syria in Damascus to investigate.
In a press release, the presidency of Syria said that “the authors will be confronted with the most difficult sanctions to serve as a lesson to anyone who dares to threaten the security of Syria or harm its people.”
A car bombardment in Manbij killed four civilians and nine injured on Saturday, reported the news agency of the Sana State, citing civil defense officials.
The attacks forced residents to become more vigilant, said one of them.
“There are efforts by the inhabitants of Manbij to focus on protecting certain districts as well as to set up surveillance cameras in the main neighborhoods,” said Jameel al-Sayyed, activist and journalist.
The fall of Assad in Syria has raised the hope that more information could shed light on the location of the American journalist Austin Ticewho would still be alive for more than 12 years after his abduction.
Tice, a veteran sailor and independent journalist, disappeared on August 14, 2012, when he reported on the Syrian civil war. Weeks later, a short video appeared online which showed a blow in distress with blindfolded eyes with its apparent kidnappers. It was the last time he was seen.
In an interview with “CBS Mornings” in December, Austin Tice’s parents said they had not seen any video evidence that he was alive and that they do not know where he was.
“We have not seen … Video evidence from the initial video that has come out shortly after being taken, but there was confirmation of people who had their eyes on him, and that even quite recently “Said Marc Tice. “So, once again, we are convinced that he is alive and we know that he is ready to go home.”