Car bomb explosion near Syria’s Manbij kills 15

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A Syrian White Helmet rescuer checks the wreckage of a car at the site of a US coalition airstrike targeting a leader of Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din, on a highway near the village of Batabo in northwest Syria, early on January 31, 2025. (File/AFP)
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DAMASCUS: Fifteen people, mostly women farm workers, were killed Monday by a car bomb near the northern Syrian city of Manbij where Kurdish-led forces are battling groups backed by Turkiye, state news agency SANA reported.
Citing White Helmet rescuers, SANA said there had been a “massacre” on a local road with “the explosion of a car bomb near a vehicle transporting agricultural workers,” killing 14 women and one man, and leaving “15 women wounded, some in critical condition.”

Topics: Syria