BALADI NEWS
A car bomb explosion has killed 17 people and wounded 20 others near a Syrian border town seized by Turkey-backed forces last month, the Turkish defence ministry said on Tuesday.
The bomb struck Tel Halaf village, west of the town of Ras al-Ain, which saw some of the heaviest fighting when Ankara launched a military offensive in the area against the People's Protection Units (YPG) last month.
Several vehicles were reduced to charred shells by the blast at a village market.
The Turkish defence ministry blamed the attack on the YPG, which Ankara accuses of being the Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), that has waged an armed rebellion against Turkey since 1984.
"Showing a much worse attitude than Daesh, the PKK/YPG terror group continues its car bombings aimed at civilians," the ministry posted on Twitter.
UK-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, confirmed the attack but gave a lower toll, saying 11 people - including at least three civilians - were killed.
However, it said the death toll is likely to climb due to the severity of some of the injuries suffered.
Source: Al Jazeera.