Syria car bomb attack: 18 civilians killed, 27 injuried in al-Bab

According to the Turkish Defence Ministry, at least 18 civilians were killed and 27 others suffered injuries in a car bomb attack on Saturday in the Syrian city of al-Bab. 

Though the Ministry, in a Twitter post, had earlier said the attack on a bus terminal killed ten and wounded more than 15 others, a Qatari television news channel reported that Turkish media, citing defence ministry gave a higher death toll later. It also quoted Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor as saying that 19 people had died in the blast.

Turkey has blamed Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) for the attack. Turkey's Defence Ministry wrote on Twitter that YPG "terrorists" detonated a car bomb in the al-Bab bus terminal. Several cars and buildings were damaged in the attack, which involved two bomb-laden vehicles, according to reports. 

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"Inhumane and uncivilised PKK/YPG terrorists continue to target innocent civilians using the same methods as Isla. This time the terrorists detonated a car bomb in the al-Bab bus terminal in the Op Euphrates Shield area, killing 10 civilians and injuring more than 15," the Ministry tweeted.

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Last week, at least eight people were killed and more than 20 sustained injuries after a car explosion rocked the village of Suluk in the north of the Syrian Raqqa Governorate. Earlier, Turkey pushed into northern Syria as it launched a military operation aimed at pushing back the YPG-led SDF from the border region east of the Euphrates River and establish a "safe zone" stretching at least 30km (19 miles) into Syria to resettle some of the 3.6 million refugees it hosts, as per reports.

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(with ANI inputs)