Two explosions hit Rojava's Qamishlo and Hasaka

Two explosions occurred in the Syrian Kurdish city of Qamishlo and Hasaka on Monday, killing seven people and injuring three, a Kurdistan24 reporter said.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – Two explosions occurred in the Syrian Kurdish city of Qamishlo and Hasaka on Monday, killing seven people and injuring three, a Kurdistan24 reporter said.

The first blast was an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated on the Kornesh Road in the city of Qamishlo.

According to security sources, there were no casualties. 

The second explosion was a motorbike wired with an IED that exploded at the Mersho crossroad located in the neighborhood of Masakni in Hasaka city.

Ekrem Salih, a Kurdistan24 reporter stationed in Hasaka, said the second explosion killed four security personnel and three civilians as well as injuring three more security personnel.

Following the explosions, ambulances arrived at the scene, and the wounded people were transported to the nearest hospitals.

So far, the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the violence in Hasaka, but the perpetrators of the Qamishlo blast remain unknown.

The number of explosions inside Rojava has increased in the past few months.

On July 27, a truck bomb blast claimed by the IS took the lives of nearly 50 people and wounded about 150 others in Qamishlo.

Pending a full outcome of the investigation, the Rojava Security (Asayish) Command said in a statement that it dismissed three security officers from duty.

“Asayish Command has dismissed the following officers after the Qamishlo bombing: Rojava Traffic Director Abdulbasit Mohammad Kuty, Checkpoints Security Official Sheikhmous Ahmad, and Rojava Asayish spokesperson Abdallah Mohammad Sadoun,” the statement read.

Qamishlo, in Hasakeh province, is under the shared control of the Syrian regime and Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its military wing of People’s Protection Units (YPG).

The PYD have declared zones of “autonomous administration” across parts of north and northeast Syria.

 

Editing by Karzan Sulaivany

(Ekram Salih and Hisham Arafat contributed to this report)