Two women wounded in Qamishli explosion
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Two women were wounded by an explosion in Qamishli on Thursday.
The two women, Khadija Hussein and Nadia Mohammed, were injured when a car hit an explosive device in the northern Syrian city.
They have been taken to hospital.
Dr. Anter Ibrahim described their condition as stable and “good,” explaining that their main injuries were from shrapnel that hit them in the jaws.
Khidir Wahid Shekho, an anesthesiologist at the hospital, said of both women: “their health condition is very good.”
A relative of the victims said that they were walking down the road when the explosion suddenly occurred.
“They lost consciousness and fell. That is it. This is really not good. Enough destruction. We are devastated,” said the relative, appealing for an end to such violent acts.
The explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) thrown into the area by unknown gunmen near a position of the regime forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Qamishli is under the control of the local Kurdish-led administration and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The Syrian regime also maintains a presence in the city that is on the border with Turkey. The SDF and regime forces have largely kept an uneasy truce, though a rare clash broke out last September.
A massive double bombing in the city in July 2016 killed 50 people.
The two women, Khadija Hussein and Nadia Mohammed, were injured when a car hit an explosive device in the northern Syrian city.
They have been taken to hospital.
Dr. Anter Ibrahim described their condition as stable and “good,” explaining that their main injuries were from shrapnel that hit them in the jaws.
Khidir Wahid Shekho, an anesthesiologist at the hospital, said of both women: “their health condition is very good.”
A relative of the victims said that they were walking down the road when the explosion suddenly occurred.
“They lost consciousness and fell. That is it. This is really not good. Enough destruction. We are devastated,” said the relative, appealing for an end to such violent acts.
The explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) thrown into the area by unknown gunmen near a position of the regime forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Qamishli is under the control of the local Kurdish-led administration and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The Syrian regime also maintains a presence in the city that is on the border with Turkey. The SDF and regime forces have largely kept an uneasy truce, though a rare clash broke out last September.
A massive double bombing in the city in July 2016 killed 50 people.
Updated at 10:51 pm