A car bomb exploded on Monday in the outskirts of a city in northern Syria, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores more, according to a war monitor and local civil defence.
According to the local Syrian civil defence, 14 ladies and one male were killed when the car on the outskirts of Manbij exploded close to a van transporting agricultural labourers. Fifteen more ladies were injured, some of them critically. But according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British war monitor, 18 women and one man were killed.
Even after President Bashar Assad was overthrown in December, bloodshed has persisted in Manbij in the northeastern Aleppo region, where the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and Turkish-backed groups known as the Syrian National Army continue to clash.
According to civil defence sources cited by SANA, a car bombing in Manbij on Saturday left nine people injured and four civilians dead.
