Syria’s Tel Tamr witnesses 29th power outage due to Turkish shelling
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, Turkish artillery shelling of a village in the countryside of the town of Tel Tamr north of Hasakah caused power outage to the town and its countryside.
A source of Tel Tamr Military Council, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told North Press Turkish forces and their affiliated armed Syrian opposition factions targeted the village of Umm al-Keif north of Tel Tamr with a barrage of artillery shells.
The Turkish shelling occurred 12 hours after another similar shelling the village had witnessed at about 10:00 PM on Friday.
As a result, power that supplies an electrical substations north of the town has been cut due to damage in high-voltage lines.
This is the 29th time in three years the power is cut to the town and its countryside due to the Turkish shelling, according to statistics by Tel Tamr Power Directorate.
Tel Tamr, which has a population of about 25,000 and is 30 km away from the Syrian-Turkish border, is of strategic importance as it is a junction on the M4 Highway linking the Jazira region in northeast Syria to Aleppo governorate in northwest.
Tel Tamr in north of Hasakah, northeast Syria, has been under constant attack by Turkish military and its affiliated armed Syrian opposition factions for more than two years.
Parts of the northern and western countryside of the town and the entire southern countryside are protected by the Syriac Military Council and the Assyrian Khabour Guards Forces, while the Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions control the northern countryside up to the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) on the northern border of Syria.