ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Militants of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) group sneaked into the Kurdish town of Kobani in Syria on Thursday, launching a wave of car bombs and assaults that reportedly killed 75 people.
The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said in a statement that 45 civilians were killed, and that its fighters had killed 30 ISIS militants.
A Rudaw reporter on the scene said that 20 of the victims were from a village outside Kobani.
“Among the civilians who were killed there were 20 residents of Bakha Botan, a village 20 kilometers outside Kobani,” Rudaw correspondent Omar Kalo reported from the scene.
