Massive Tanker Bomb Kills 43 In Syria Border Town
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published January 07, 2017 | 06:45 PM
BEIRUT, Jan 7, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 07th Jan, 2017 ) - A massive tanker truck bomb ripped through a market by a courthouse in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz on Saturday, killing 43 people and wounding dozens near the Turkish border.
The attack appeared to be the deadliest yet in the town in northern Aleppo province, which has been regularly hit by bombing targeting rebels and civilians. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least six rebels were among the dead, but most of those killed were civilians.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said identification of the dead was being hampered by the fact that some bodies were completely burned in the blast. Video from the scene showed huge clouds of smoke rising from a street filled with debris and twisted metal, which bulldozers were working to clear.
Raging fires were burning in several vehicles, and the fire brigade was battling to put them out with a giant water tanker and hoses. Civil defence workers, rebels and civilians picked through the rubble of a building, half of which had tumbled into the street.
Azaz has been repeatedly struck by bomb attacks, including in November when rebels said 25 people -- civilians and opposition fighters -- were killed in a car bombing of a rebel headquarters. The rebels accused the Islamic State group of being behind that attack.
The jihadist group is present elsewhere in Aleppo province and has sought to advance on Azaz in the past. In October, at least 17 people were killed in a car bomb attack on a rebel checkpoint, the Observatory said.
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