At Least 15 Dead in North Syria Car Bomb Attack: Civil Defense

By Staff, Agencies

Syria’s Civil Defense Organization has reported the death of at least 15 people, including 14 women, in a car bomb attack targeting agricultural workers in the northern Syrian city of Manbij.

“A horrific massacre claimed the lives of 14 women and one man, in addition to injuring 15 [other] women, some seriously, which suggests that the death toll will rise,” the body said on Monday.

"A car bomb explosion on a main road near Manbij revealed that all victims were agricultural workers," it added.

The attack, the deadliest in areas previously occupied by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militant group, marked the end of the democratically-elected Bashar al-Assad government.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that militants from the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham group had carried out 35 summary executions in the past 72 hours.

SOHR said those executed were mostly former officers in the toppled government, who had presented themselves at the centers set up by the country’s new ruling entity.

Earlier reports had said that the new authorities installed by the HTS had carried out multiple arrests in the central Syrian province of Homs.