Car bomb explosion near Syria’s Manbij kills 15

DAMASCUS – Fifteen people, mostly women farm workers, were killed Monday by a car bomb near the northern Syrian city of Manbij where Kurdish-led forces are battling groups backed by Turkiye, state news agency SANA reported.

Citing White Helmet rescuers, SANA said there had been a “massacre” on a local road with “the explosion of a car bomb near a vehicle transporting agricultural workers,” killing 14 women and one man, and leaving “15 women wounded, some in critical condition.”

AN-AFP