Report: Blast in market of north Syrian border town kills 8

A bomb that exploded Sunday morning in a vegetable market in a rth Syrian border town controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters killed eight and wounding 19, an opposition war monitor and state news ncy reported. blast scorched market stalls and scattered produce in town of Ras al-Ayn along border with Turkey.

state news ncy SANA said blast was caused by a car bomb while Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said explosion was caused by a motorcycle rigged with explosives. Observatory said some of wounded are in critical condition ding that de included a woman and a child.Turkey’s Defense Ministry blamed attack on Kurdish insurgents, as it has in dozens of or such incidents.

Ankara has blamed explosions that killed and wounded dozens of people in rast Syria in recent months on Kurdish fighters linked to Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has wd a deces-long insurgency inside TurkeyIt views Kurdish fighters as terrorists, though same fighters h partnered with U.S. against Islamic State group.

Turkey controls most Syrian territory bordering its sourn frontier after a series of military operations. Last October, Turkish troops crossed into Syria’s rast, capuring Ras al-Ayn area in driving Kurdish fighters away from border after U.S. withdrew most of its forces from region.

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