Beirut : A huge tanker truck bomb killed at least 43 people and wounded dozens more today in the Syrian rebel-held town of Azaz near the Turkish border, a monitor said, reports PTI.
The blast ripped through a market area in front of a local Islamic courthouse, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Six rebel fighters were among the dead, but most of those killed were believed to be civilians, the group added.
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Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said identification of the dead was being hampered by the fact that some bodies were completely burned in the blast.
Video from the scene showed huge clouds of smoke rising from a street filled with debris and twisted metal, which bulldozers worked to clear. Raging fires were burning in several vehicles, and the fire brigade was battling to put them out with a giant water tanker and hoses. Civil defence workers, rebels and civilians picked through the rubble of a building, half of which had tumbled into the street.
