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| Daesh claims Syria suicide bombings that killed 26 |
| 2015-12-12 |
| Daesh has claimed responsibility for triple suicide bombings in northern Syria that killed at least 26 people. The group said in a statement posted online that the attacks in the predominantly Kurdish province of Hassakeh targeted offices of the main Kurdish militia known as YPG. Three of its fighters driving three separate vehicles had detonated the suicide bombs targeting "bases" belonging to Kurdish fighters. The attacks in the predominantly Christian town of Tal Tamr occurred late Thursday. Syrian State TV and Daesh said on Friday the blasts killed 60 people while the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they killed 26, including four Assyrian Christians. Dozens of people were also wounded in the blasts. Earlier, a triple truck bomb attack claimed by Daesh in northeastern Syria killed at least 50 people and wounded 80 others, a spokesman for the Kurdish militia that controls the area said on Friday. The town in the northeastern province of Hasaka is controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, which has been battling Daesh with the support of US-led air strikes. The three blasts, carried out by at least two suicide bombers, struck outside a hospital, at a marketplace and in a residential area in the town of Tel Tamer late on Thursday, the YPG's Redur Xelil said via an internet messaging service. "There is massive destruction in the town and the number killed is between 50 and 60, all of them civilians," he said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |