A car bomb killed at least 15 people in the city of Northern Manbij on Monday, the second attack there in three days and the deadliest in Syria since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown from power in December.
There were no immediate claims for responsibility for the attack in Manbij, located about 30 kilometers from the Turkish border. The civil defense rescue service identified the dead as 14 women and a man and said that another 15 women were injured.
Syrian democratic forces (SDF) led by Kurdo condemned car bombing, accusing the features backed by Turkey to use such bombings and violence to intimidate local residents.
The victims were agricultural workers and it is likely that the death toll would increase, said a civil defense official Reuters.
Manbij has changed hands numerous during the 13 -year civil war in Syria, more recently in December, when the groups backed by Turkish was captured from the SDF backed by the United States, led by the Kurda YPG militia.
The SDF had taken manbij from the militant group of the Islamic State in 2016.
On Saturday, a car bomb in Manbij killed four civilians and wounded nine others, including children, the Syrian state news agency Fury reported.
Assad was expelled from power on December 8 after an offensive of lightning by the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) group, whose leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was declared president of the transition from Syria last week.
