5 killed, 12 injured in a vehicle-borne IED explosion in Afrin’s Jindires

Five people were killed and 12 others were injured after a car bomb (a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device VBIED) exploded in the main street of Yalan-Qoz, in the town of Jindires, southwest of the city of Afrin.

The VBIED explosion, which occurred in a residential neighborhood, led to the death of five and injury of 12 others, according to initial information obtained by North-Press from the area, where three of the victims were identified as residents of Afrin.

Local sources from Jindires indicated the possibility of the increase of wounded people, according to the bombing which occurred in a very crowded street.

While the Civil Defense (White Helmets) has not announced any details regarding the bombing yet.

The wounded people were taken into the Military Hospital of Afrin on the outskirts of the city, which is under the control of the Turkish army.

The Syrian-Kurdish region of Afrin has been witnessing since the military control of the Turkish army and the affiliated armed opposition groups on the 18th of March 2018, a state of widespread security chaos, kidnappings, looting, and ransom demands, as well as almost daily internal clashes between Turkey-backed armed groups.

International human rights organizations accuse the Turkish army and the armed opposition groups of committing deliberate demographic changes against the original inhabitants of the region, where more than 250 thousand civilians were displaced into camps in the northern countryside of Aleppo since the begin of the military assault.