A Syrian police officer was killed and two civilians injured Friday in a roadside bomb in the Turkish-held city of Afrin in northwestern Syria.
The bomb rocked a crowded place in the city center, a security source told Turkish Anadolu Agency.
Ten days ago, a rigged motorcycle in Afrin killed two people and wounded three others.
Turkey’s military backed by Syrian opposition forces seized Afrin, a mainly Kurdish district, from the YPG in March 2018 in a major offensive.
Two months ago, 48 civilians were killed, including 11 children, when a bomb detonated in Afrin.
Ankara views the YPG as a terrorist group linked to Kurdish militants on its own soil and has mounted military operations in northern Syria to push it back from the border.
The nine-year-old conflict has killed more than 490,000 people and displaced 13 million.
Zaman Al Wasl
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