Kurdish cities in Syria witness bloody week
The Kurdish region in northern Syria has witnessed several explosions in the past month, with one of them targeting a church.
A series of successive explosions took place in Hasakah city in northeastern Syria, leaving about 14 civilians and military personnel wounded and causing extensive material damage. Two explosive devices detonated on the night of July 10, one in al-Ghazal neighborhood and the other on the highway between a fire station and Sinalco beverage company, opposite the Adnan al-Maliki School in Tell Hajar neighborhood.
Also on July 10, a motorcycle was detonated in the town of Markada, injuring three adults and a child. On the morning of July 11, three motorcycles exploded, two in al-Salhiya neighborhood near al-Mashmah roundabout, only 100 meters (328 feet) and about 20 minutes apart. Fifteen minutes later, the third motorcycle was detonated in al-Kalasa district near a police checkpoint. A member of the security forces was wounded in one of the three explosions and extensive material damage was caused.
Citizens in the targeted areas fear that further attacks will take place, forcing them to leave their homes.
Lazkin, from al-Salhiya neighborhood, told Al-Monitor on condition his last name was not used, “It seems we are far from getting rid of such conditions; every now and then some security incident occurs. Our children might have escaped death this time, but if the Islamic State [IS] ideology is not completely eliminated and proper, developed alternatives to the defected security structures are found, we could die in an explosion at any moment.”
