By AFPMore by this AuthorQamishli,Three civilians were killed Friday when an explosives-laden vehicle detonated in a busy neighbourhood of Qamishli, one of the main Kurdish towns in northeastern Syria, officials said. The attack, which wounded nine others, came as Kurdish forces pushed to hold off a massive cross-border assault by Turkey and its proxies. "A car bomb targeted a restaurant at a time when civilians, including journalists who came to cover the offensive, were inside," the Kurdish internal security services known as Asayish said in a statement. Qamishli has been hit by several car bomb attacks in recent months, usually claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. A Kurdish official blamed the latest bomb attack on IS but no statement from the jihadist group claiming responsibility had yet been published.

Source: Daily Nation October 11, 2019 16:07 UTC