A bomb blast in a bus has killed three civilians in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on the first anniversary of a Turkish attack on the Kurdish-majority region, a war monitor says.
Nine other people, including fighters, have been wounded in the explosion, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, tells AFP.
Turkish troops and allied rebel groups seized the Afrin region from Kurdish forces in March last year after a two-month air and ground offensive.
“The explosion is the result of a bomb that was placed in a bus in the center of Afrin,” Abdel Rahman says.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast, the second to rock Afrin since December 16, 2018, when a car bomb killed at least nine people, including five civilians, near a pro-Turkey rebel post in the city.
— AFP
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