DAESH CAR BOMB KILLS KURDISH POLICE OFFICER IN NORTHEAST SYRIA
QAMISHILI, Syria — A
police officer was killed on Sunday in a car bomb attack claimed by the Daesh
in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, police said. Kurdish
police spokesman Ali Al Hassan said the car bomb was detonated by “remote
control” near a school, “killing a member of our [police] forces”.
An AFP correspondent
at the scene said the car exploded as a Kurdish police patrol drove by, not far
from a Syrian army position. Firefighters rushed to the scene to put out a
blaze that spread from the vehicle to nearby trees, the correspondent said,
adding that debris and traces of blood littered the ground.
Syrian state news
agency SANA said the car bombing caused casualties but did not give further
details. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor
reported that a member of the Kurdish Asayesh security forces was killed in the
bombing.
The attack was claimed
by Daesh via the terror group’s Telegram account and is the latest to hit Kurdish-held
areas of northeast Syria. In July a car bombing near a church in Qamishli
wounded several people. Another one in June near Kurdish security offices in
the city injured seven people, including a child.
Syria’s Kurds have led
the US-backed fight in the war-torn country against Daesh, which continues to
claim attacks despite losing its last patch of territory earlier this year. The
terrorists have vowed to avenge their defeat at the hands of Kurdish-led forces
and maintain a presence in Syria’s vast desert as well as in the east and
northeast of the country. Kurdish forces control most of Qamishli while Syrian
government troops are deployed in the city’s Arab quarters and around the
airport.
Source: The Jordan
Times – 18 August 2019
By: AFP
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