(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed five people, including three children, in a Kurdish-held town in northeast Syria Wednesday, an activist group said.
The explosive-rigged vehicle detonated in Al-Qahtaniya, a town in Hasaka province, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based observatory.
Hoker Arafat, a security official, said the bomb was detonated remotely in front of the town post office.
"Three children were killed in the bombing because it was very close to a primary school," he said.
A member of the local security forces was wounded in the attack, he added.
State news agency SANA also reported the bombing, saying it killed several people, including children.
Daesh (ISIS) claimed the attack on its Telegram channel.
Two Kurdish fighters were also killed last Saturday in two blasts hit the former Daesh town of al-Shaddadi Hasaka province, activists said Sunday.
According to Malaz al-Yousif, Hasaka-based activist, a booby-trapped motorcycle went off in the center of al-Shaddadi town, targeting an Assayish vehicle, the domestic security unit of the Kurdish Democratic Party (PYD).
Another PYD fighter was killed in a land mine explosion in the town on Saturday.
Hasaka, a city 620 km north of Damascus, was liberated from the Islamic State in 2016, but the scattered blasts are still taking place due to the ISIS sleeper cells, according to Kurdish officials.
Kurdish militias have been the main partner of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State in Syria, helping drive the jihadists out of swathes of northern and eastern Syria last year.
The militant group routinely claims attacks in northeast Syria, despite its territorial defeat earlier this year.
Such attacks have included arson against wheat fields and deadly car bombs.
IS maintains a presence in the country's vast Badia desert, as well as in areas controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the country's northeast and east.
The SDF, backed by the war planes of a US-led coalition, announced the end of IS' self-proclaimed "caliphate" in March in the village of Baghouz, in Syria's far east.
Syria's war has killed more than 560,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011 with a brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests. AFP, Zaman Al Wasl
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