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Twin explosions kill at least 9 in northern Syria city - reports
[Rudaw] Multiple kabooms rocked the streets of Raqqa city in northern Syria on Tuesday afternoon resulting in at least nine killed, according to initial media reports.Nine people were killed, nine maimed and sent to the Modern Medicine Hospital and Al Firat Hospital in Raqqa, Hawar news agency reported on Tuesday. Children were among the maimed in dual blasts: a mine and then a boom-mobile. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported 15 people were killed in the kabooms on al-Nour Street in western Raqqa. The UK-based conflict monitor added that the area was crowded with pedestrians and there was a security checkpoint nearby. No group immediately claimed the attack. Rooters reported that among the injured were three Asayesh (Kurdish security) members. Raqqa city's security has been in the portfolio of the Raqqa Internal Security Forces (RISF) since it was liberated from ISIS in October 2017. In the Raqqa countryside, there was an kaboom in Tabqa that killed one man and killed his wife on Monday night. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-04-10 |
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