Screen grab from one of the explosion videos.
On June 27, an explosion rocked the northern Syrian city of Afrin, which is occupied by the Turkish military and its proxies.
The explosion was caused by an explosive device which struck a civilian vehicle as it was passing on road leading to the Turkish-occupied town of Azaz to the east. As a result of the explosion, a child, 10-year old girl, and two men were killed.
One of the slain men was identified as Lieutenant Mohamad Hamadah, an officer of the Free Syrian Police which is a law enforcement body backed by Turkey. Hamadah was most likely the target of the attack.
مقتل مدنيين اثنين وإصابة آخرين بانفجار عبوة ناسفة في مدينة #عفرين
تقرير: هادي طاطين#اخبار_سوريا #تلفزيون_سوريا pic.twitter.com/NVOFNwhGlZ— تلفزيون سوريا (@syr_television) June 26, 2021
إرهاب المليشيات الأنفصالية PKK/PYD الأجرامية مجددا في مدينة #عفرين.. بالأمس يدمرون مشفى راح ضحيته ما يزيد عن 20 شهيداً مدنياً واليوم شهداء وجرحى من المدنيين بانفجار يهز المدينة .
#عفرين #ريف #حلب #شمال #سوريا pic.twitter.com/nE8DN2zNCv— Riad Mustafa Kamal AlKhatib (@3rj5oPnn2XeKaYg) June 26, 2021
The Turkish Ministry of National Defense and officials in the Syrian opposition accused the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and he People Protection Units of orchestrating the attack. As usual, no evidence was presented.
The bombing is the most recent in a series of attacks targeting Turkish forces and civilians in Afrin. Earlier this month, a rocket attack killed 22 people and wounded more than 20 others in Afrin city.
The situation in Afrin has been unstable since 2018, when the Turkish military and its proxies occupied most of the Kurdish-majority region.
