Syrians gather at the site of a bomb attack in Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli on July 27, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
BEIRUT: The toll in a massive bomb attack on Wednesday in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria has risen to 44, state media said.
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The official SANA news agency said at least 140 people were also injured when a suicide bomber in a vehicle blew himself up in a western neighbourhood of the city.
The attack was initially described as a double bombing, but sources in the city and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights subsequently said the initial attack had caused a gas tank to detonate.
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The area targeted houses several ministries of the local autonomous Kurdish administration.
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