have been killed In the Explosion of a car bomb near a border post between Syria and Turkey, according to activists, at least seven people. Among the dead were five civilians, the Syrian Observatory for human rights said on Sunday. More than 60 people, including women and children, had been injured.

The car bomb had detonated on the Syrian side of the border post of Bab al-Salam, said the head of the Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman, the news Agency AFP. The bomb went according to his information, in a roundabout high, which leads to the entrance of the border facility.

The border post is located in the North of the province of Aleppo in an area controlled by the Turkish army and its allied Syrian militias. The Observatory made the jihadists militia “Islamic state” (IS) responsible for the attack. It was probably a Retaliation for the recent expansion of the operations of the Turkish army and its allies against IS cells in the area.

The UK-based Observatory relies on a network of informants on the ground. Your information can be independent is often difficult to verify.