SYRIA

Suicide bombing at Kurdish wedding in Syria kills 30

kurdish-wedding-attack People carry a wounded woman on a stretcher inside the Al Rahma hospital on Monday in the city of Qamishli in the Syrian province of Hasakeh | AFP

At least 30 people were killed and 90 others wounded on Monday, when a suicide attack targeted a Kurdish wedding in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah, media reports said.

Citing Syria' s national TV Xinhua reported that the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a suicide bomber detonated himself inside a wedding hall in an area on the road between Hasakah and the city of Qamishli, between two checkpoints of the Kurdish forces in that predominantly Kurdish area.

The Britain-based watchdog group said the blast rocked during a wedding, adding that the death toll will likely rise due to the high number of critically wounded people.

No party has claimed responsibility for the bombings, but it bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State (IS), which has carried out several suicide attacks against Kurdish forces and people in Hasakah, a province controlled by the Kurdish forces and the Syrian government.

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