Explosion in Afrin kills one, injures five
One person was killed and five were reported injured when a car bomb exploded in the Kurdish city of Afrin in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo province on Monday afternoon, Kurdistan 24 reported.
An anonymous source in Afrin told the source that a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device exploded near the Kawa roundabout in Afrin.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that the bomb exploded near the headquarters of Jaysh al-Islam (Islamic Army).
The source reminds that Turkish-backed factions have controlled Afrin since March 2018, when Turkey invaded the enclave in a cross-border offensive against the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which had controlled the area since 2012. The operation killed scores of civilians and forced thousands of Kurds to flee their homes.