44 dead in Syria bomb blast: state TV

'This is the largest explosion the city has even seen' a source in Kurdish Asayesh security forces said

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.



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.



The area targeted houses several ministries of the local autonomous Kurdish administration.