Car bomb kills several in Syria’s Afrin

At least four people killed and several others wounded in car bomb attack in Syrian city of Afrin, according to reports.

At least four people have been killed by a car bomb in the northern Syrian city of Afrin, according to local media and the news agency Reuters, which cited a medical source in the area saying six others had been wounded.

Videos posted on social media on Monday showed shops destroyed and rubble in the streets near the Kawa Roundabout, where a number of government offices are located.

Earlier on Monday, the Gaziantep governor’s office said three mortar shells fired from across the border fell into the Turkish town of Karkamış, which lies just across the border from Jarablus.  One mortar fell near a train station, and another in a park, and no injuries were reported, the provincial governor’s office said in a statement.