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Suicide bomb kills 20 in Syrian Kurdish festival: activists

Published March 20th, 2015 - 07:09 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

At least 20 people were killed and 80 others wounded after a suicide attack during a festival in Syria on Friday, AFP and Reuters reported.

The car bomber detonated explosives at a Kurdish festival at Hasakeh, a city in northeastern Syria, while residents were celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Daesh (ISIS) carried out the attack, and a spokesman for the YPG also told Reuters the militant group was responsible. 

Nowruz is celebrated by the stateless Kurdish minority in Syria.

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