Suicide attack kills 7 in northeastern Syrian city

A suicide car bomber struck in a predominantly Kurdish city in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, killing seven people, a day after twin car bombings in the same city killed at least 32, including 19 civilians.

Insurgents also shelled five government-held neighborhoods in the northern city of Aleppo today, killing 20 people and wounding 100, Syrian state media said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for today’s deadly suicide blast in the mostly Kurdish city of Hassakeh, saying it targeted an office of the main Kurdish militia in Syria. Monday’s car bombs in Hassakeh were also swiftly claimed by the IS group, which controls large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq.

Syria’s state news agency SANA said a suicide attacker blew up his truck in front of the water authority building in Hassakeh’s northwestern neighborhood of Maaeshiyeh. It said the blast killed seven and wounded 21. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast killed seven people, including five Kurdish fighters.