Syria: IS blast kills at least 44 in Kurdish city of Qamishli
With agency reports
A massive bomb attack killed 44 people in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Wednesday, Syrian state television reports.
The bomb blast, it appears, caused a gas tank to explode giving impressions that it was a twin bomb attack.
No fewer than 170 people, AFP reports, were injured in the blast.
Rescue workers are still retrieving victims from the scene.
Hospitals in the city are calling for blood donations, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reports.
So-called Islamic State (IS) has said it was behind the attack, in Hassakeh province, near the border with Turkey.
IS has previously carried out bombings against Kurds in the area..
