At least 25 civilians were injured on Friday in a car bomb attack in Syria's northwestern city of Afrin.
An explosive-laden vehicle went off in a crowded place in the center of the city.
Teams of Syrian civil defense agency White Helmets rushed to the area and transferred the injured to a medical center.
Afrin Now, an activist collective, quoted the Civil Defense in the town as saying as many as 25 people were wounded.
Activists also said that shortly after the initial explosion, two mortar shells wounded two people.
Turkey and allied Syrian fighters took Afrin last year, expelling Syrian Kurdish fighters considered terrorists by Ankara. The Turkish takeover set off a series of attacks against Turkey's presence in the originally Kurdish-dominated areas.
Local security forces claimed the Kurdish YPG militia could be behind the attack.
The eight-year-old war has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands and forced 13 million people from their homes, half of whom have left their shattered homeland.
With Agencies
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