Car bomb kills at least 43 in the town of Azaz in Syria - most of the dead are civilians

A car bomb has killed at least 43 people, most of them civilians, in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz on the border with Turkey. Dozens more are wounded in the attack that happened in front of an Islamic courthouse near a market, s indicated by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Azaz is a major stronghold of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA).
No agency has claimed responsibility for the latest attack.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 7 January 2017.

The toll was likely to rise in the attack. This was the latest in a string of bombings to hit Azaz that have previously been blamed on ISIS. As SOHR chief has added - identification of the dead was hampered by the fact that some of the bodies were completely burned in the blast.
Till now more than 310,000 people have been killed in Syria ever since the conflict began with anti-government protests in March 2011.


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