The Syrian President’s Office refuses the ‘terrorist’ attack and promises to seek responsibility for the perpetrators.
A car bomb killed at least 20 people and injured many others on Manbi’s outskirts in Northern Syria, the Syrian Presidency said.
The explosion on Monday was the most deadly attack in the country since the fall of President Bashar Al-Assad in December last year.
The incident was also the seventh bombing of a car in just over a month in the area, which recorded the struggle between forces supporting Turkey and the Kurdish group.
Syria’s Office of the New President Ahmed al-Sharaa condemned the “terrorist” attack, saying that he would continue his responsibility for the incident.
“This crime will not pass without the strongest punishment for their perpetrators, so they become an example to anyone who believes they have compromised Syria’s safety or harmed their people,” the Presidency said.
Hospital workers said on Monday Associated Press to the News Agency that the car had been detonated near the vehicle at night, carrying mostly agricultural workers.
Syrian civilian defense, known as white helmets, said at least 11 women and three children had been killed in the attack.
“All of these victims had families and dreams,” a saving group said in a statement. “Their efforts to make a living earn turned to death and wounds. Justice must be achieved for them, and the perpetrators of this crime must be responsible. “
So far, no group has taken responsibility for the explosion.
On Saturday, a car bombing also killed four people in the city and wounded nine others, said Sana State News Agency.
Jameel al-Sayyed, activist and journalist Manbij, said Associated Press that repeating attacks forced the inhabitants to become more awake.
“There are efforts of people from Manbi to focus on the protection of some neighborhoods, as well as the placement of surveillance cameras in the main districts of the city,” Al-Sayyed said.
Through the Syrian war, which began in 2011, control over Manbi – which sits in the south of the Turkish border and east of Aleppo – has changed several times.
In December, he was captured by groups that supported Turkey from American, dominated by Kurdish Syrian democratic forces (SDF), who condemned the bombing on Monday.
SDF – without evidence – suggested that what he called Turkiye’s “mercenaries” was behind the attack.
Turkiye, NATO’s United States, watching SDF As an extension of the folk units of protection (YPG) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which he considers “terrorist” groups.
Al-Sharaa, a former leader of the rebels who took over the transitional basis earlier this month, should visit Turkiye later this week.
