A car bomb exploded early Sunday morning March 31 in a market in Azaz, a town in northern Syria held by pro-Turkish forces, killing and injuring several people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. man (OSDH).
At least “eight people were killed and twenty-three others injured” when “a car bomb exploded in the middle of the market” in Azaz, north of the province of Aleppo, said the NGO, specifying that the toll was provisional. .
According to OSDH, an NGO based in the United Kingdom but which has a large network of sources in Syria, the explosion caused “significant damage” and started a fire.
More than fifty soldiers killed in Israeli strike
The OSDH announced earlier on Saturday that fifty-two Syrian and Lebanese Hezbollah soldiers and fighters were killed in strikes attributed to Israel on Friday in Aleppo, in northern Syria.
Syria has been fragmented by the war that broke out in 2011 after the repression of pro-democracy protests, and the Turkish army controls, with affiliated groups, two large border areas after carrying out large-scale operations against Kurdish groups.
Fighters from the Islamic State organization, hidden in the Syrian desert, have renewed their attacks against the troops of the Bashar Al-Assad regime since the beginning of the year.
