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Explosion in Afrin injures three people
Three were injured by a car bomb explosion in Afrin city (Photo: social media)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Three people were reported injured when a car bomb exploded in the Kurdish city of Afrin in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo province.
An #explosive device planted in a car exploded in #Afrin, in the northern countryside of #Aleppopic.twitter.com/vyh0MRmpLA Rojava Media Center (@Rojava Media) February 24, 2021
“The explosion was caused by the detonation of an [improvised explosive] in a car in Al-Villat street in Afrin city, which injured three persons at least and caused material damage,” the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.