Triple car bombings in Turkey-occupied Syria draw UN condemnation
Bombings in Afrin, Azaz and a village near al-Bab claimed at least 18 lives this weekend.
Three car bombings struck Turkey-occupied northern Syria on Saturday and Sunday, killing at least 18 people, including at least four children. More than 60 people were believed to have been injured in the three blasts.
The first blast occurred in the historically Kurdish city of Afrin on Saturday, killing eight and injuring 27, according to Syria’s White Helmets.
A subsequent car bombing rocked the town of Azaz on Sunday, killing four, including one 12-year-old girl, and wounding more than 20. A third explosion, also a car bomb, reportedly killed five members of the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) at a checkpoint in the village of Um Shakif in northern Aleppo province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Video of the bombing in Azaz circulated on social media on Sunday, showing flaming wrecks of vehicles and people carrying the wounded away from the scene.
