Death toll in bomb explosion in northern Syria rises to 18 - agency
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November 16, 2019, 16:51
Also 27 civilians injured
TASS, November 16. At least 18 civilians have been killed and 27 more injured in a bomb explosion in the northern Syrian city of al-Bab, located near the Turkish border, Anadolu Agency said on Saturday.
Earlier, the Turkish Defense Ministry reported that ten people had been killed and 15 more injured. According to the ministry, a bomb went off in a car parked at the bus station. The ministry claims that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was behind the attack.
The news agency said that in 2016 al-Bab was largely "retaken from the PKK terrorists" in Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield.