![A view of the scene after a terrorist attack with a bomb-laden vehicle, which killed at least 17 and injured 15 others, in Manbij, Aleppo, Syria on February 03, 2025. [Mutez Muhammed - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AA-20250203-36943615-36943612-17_KILLED_IN_SYRIA_TERROR_ATTACK.jpg?fit=1069%2C800&ssl=1)
A car bomb killed at least 15 people in the northern Syrian city of Manbij today, the second attack there in three days and Syria’s deadliest since Bashar Al-Assad was toppled in December, Reuters reported.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack in Manbij, located some 30 kilometres from the Turkish border. The civil defence rescue service identified the dead as 14 women and one man, and said another 15 women were wounded.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) condemned the car bombing, accusing Turkish-backed factions of using such bombings and violence to intimidate local residents.
The victims were agricultural workers and the death toll was likely to increase, a civil defence official said.
Manbij has changed hands numerous times during Syria’s 13-year civil war, most recently in December when Turkish-backed groups captured it from the US-backed SDF, which is led by the Kurdish YPG militia.
The SDF had taken Manbij from Daesh militants in 2016.
On Saturday, a car bomb in Manbij killed four civilians and wounded nine others, including children, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported.
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