Toll Rises To 44 In Bomb Attack In Syrian Kurdish City: State Media
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published July 27, 2016 | 03:18 PM
DAMASCUS, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 27th july,2016) - The toll in a massive bomb attack on Wednesday in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria has risen to 44, state media said. The official SANA news agency said at least 140 people were also injured when a suicide bomber in a vehicle blew himself up in a western neighbourhood of the city.
The attack was initially described as a double bombing, but sources in the city and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights subsequently said the initial attack had caused a gas tank to detonate. The area targeted houses several ministries of the local autonomous Kurdish administration.
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