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Bus bomb kills three civilians in Syria's Kurdish enclave of Afrin on anniversary of Turkish invasion

A Syrian kurd shouts slogans during a demonstration in Qamishli on Sunday, marking the first anniversary of the takeover of the northern Syrian city of Afrin by the Turkish army and Turkish-backed Syrian rebels. A bomb exploded in Afrin Sunday, killing three people and wounding nine others, according to a war monitor, on the first anniversary of a Turkish offensive on the Kurdish-majority region. | AFP-JIJI

Reuters

Jan 21, 2019

ISTANBUL –

A bomb planted on a public bus in the northwest Syrian town of Afrin killed three civilians and wounded about 20, several witnesses told Reuters on Sunday.

The blast came on the first anniversary of Operation Olive Branch, an air and ground assault by Turkey on the mainly-Kurdish Afrin to drive out the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it and similar attacks "will never discourage our fight in Afrin."

Bus bomb kills three civilians in Syria's Kurdish enclave of Afrin on anniversary of Turkish invasion

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