A car bomb on Monday killed no fewer than 20 people in the northern Syrian city of Manbij.
According to the Syrian presidency, this marked the second attack in three days and the country’s deadliest since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power in December.
The presidency said it will hold the perpetrators of what it described as a terror attack accountable.
“This crime will not pass without the most severe punishment against its perpetrators to serve as an example against those who will try to tamper with the security of Syria or harm its people,” the presidency said.
Meanwhile, there were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack in Manbij, located some 30 km from the Turkish border.
According to a preliminary toll issued earlier by the civil defence rescue service, at least 14 of the dead were women, and another 15 women were wounded.
A civil defence official told reporters that the victims were agricultural workers and the death toll was likely to increase,
It was gathered that Manbij has changed hands numerous times during Syria’s 13-year civil war, most recently in December when Turkish-backed groups captured it from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, SDF, which is led by the Kurdish militia.
Recall that on Saturday, a car bomb in Manbij killed four civilians and wounded nine others, including children.
DAILY POST gathered that Assad was ousted from power on December 8 after a lightning offensive by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, group, whose leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was declared Syria’s transitional president last week.
