DUBAI: Fourteen women and one man were killed and 15 other women injured today, in a car bomb explosion on a main road on the outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Manbij, Syria’s civil defence said.
All of them were agricultural workers, it added in a statement.
There were no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
It was the second blast in three days in the area, after four civilians were killed and nine others, including children, were injured in a car bomb attack in the centre of Manbij on Saturday, according to Syria’s state news agency Sana.
Manbij city is some 30km south of the Turkish border and to the west of the Euphrates River.