At least 20
people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in the northeastern
Syrian city of Hasakah, state television reported.
The
broadcaster said they were killed in a blast in the Mahata neighbourhood
of the city that followed a first blast in Khashman district.
State news agency SANA gave different tolls for the blasts, which it said were suicide car bombs.
The agency said five people were killed in Khashman and 12 in Mahata, and also reported that least 70 others had been wounded.
A woman and her two children were among the dead, the Associated Press news agency reported.
The UK-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said the two explosions were
suicide car bombs, although it could not immediately confirm a toll.
Observatory
chief Rami Abdel Rahman said the first blast hit a checkpoint belonging
to the Kurdish security forces in Khashman, while the second struck the
headquarters of a pro-regime militia in Mahata.
Control of
Hasakeh city, and other parts of the province by the same name, is
divided between Kurdish groups and forces loyal to President Bashar
al-Assad.
The city has
regularly been targeted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL) group, which controls some territory in Hasakah province.
The group
entered the city and seized several neighbourhoods in June, but was
expelled a month later after battles involving both government troops
and Kurdish fighters.
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