Bomb Blast In A Bus Kills 3 Civilians In Syria's Afrin: Monitor
Sumaira FH Published January 20, 2019 | 05:48 PM
Beirut, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Jan, 2019 ) :A bomb blast in a bus killed three civilians Sunday in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on the first anniversary of a Turkish attack on the Kurdish-majority region, a war monitor said.
Nine other people, including fighters, were wounded in the explosion, said the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Turkish troops and allied rebel groups seized the Afrin region from Kurdish forces in March lastyear after a two-month air and ground offensive.
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