Two blasts kill seven in Syrian rebel-held northwest near Turkish border


  • World
  • Wednesday, 25 Nov 2020

Damaged cars are pictured after an explosion in al-Bab, Syria November 24, 2020 in this picture obtained from social media. MMC/SHARIF AL HALABI/via REUTERS

AMMAN (Reuters) - Two bomb blasts killed at least seven people and wounded scores on Tuesday in areas of northwest Syria near the Turkish border and under heavy Turkish influence, witnesses and police sources said.

Five people were killed and 20 wounded, some critically, in a blast that exploded at a road junction on the outskirts of the city of al Bab, north of Aleppo province, they said.

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