{"id":3642,"date":"2014-05-17T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2014-05-17T06:01:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T06:01:10","slug":"syria-conflict-deadly-blast-near-turkey-border-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/05\/17\/3642\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria conflict: Deadly blast near Turkey border crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/blast%20near%20border.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>At least 43 people have been killed in a car bombing near the border between Syria and Turkey, activists say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A car filled with explosives was reportedly blown up in the Karaj Sajou area, near the Bab al-Salam crossing in the northern province of Aleppo.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that five women and three children were among the dead.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A video posted online appeared to show smoke rising from burning vehicles, charred corpses and scattered luggage.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Oh God, may you punish them!&#8221; one man can be heard shouting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Refugees<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The head of the Syrian Observatory, Rami Abdul Rahman, told the Associated Press that the explosion occurred at a garage used by passengers heading to or coming from the border crossing.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was not immediately clear if it had been a suicide bombing, he added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The governor of the Turkish province of Kilis told the state news agency Anadolu that 48 injured Syrians had been transported across the border for treatment, and that 11 of them had later died.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Suleyman Tapsiz added that initial reports indicated the jihadist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) was behind the bombing.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bab al-Salam is under the control of the Tawhid Brigade. It is part of the Islamic Front, whose fighters have been engaged in deadly battles with ISIS since early January. The jihadists have been widely condemned for attacking fellow rebels and abusing civilians.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The area around Bab al-Salam has been bombed on several occasions. In February, an explosion killed six people and wounded 45 others.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is the main route into Turkey for Syrians wanting to flee the three-year conflict in the country, which has left an estimated 150,000 people dead.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are currently more than 742,000 refugees registered with the UN in Turkey. The Turkish government has set up 22 camps in 10 provinces to help accommodate about 220,000 of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8216;Atrocities&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Meanwhile in London, Turkey&#8217;s foreign minister attended a meeting of 11 nations in the Friends of Syria Core Group, which agreed to step up support for the Syrian opposition.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">US Secretary of State John Kerry said he was open to the idea of providing assistance through &#8220;any means&#8221;, but stopped short of promising military aid to rebel fighters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr Kerry also said he had seen raw, unverified data that suggested the Syrian government had used chlorine gas in attacks against its own people a number of times.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More than 100 civil society groups from around the world issued an appeal to the UN Security Council to approve a resolution, supported by a broad coalition of countries, referring the conflict in Syria to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Neither Syrian authorities nor the leaders of non-state armed groups have taken any meaningful steps to ensure accountability for past and ongoing grave human rights crimes,&#8221; the groups warn.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The failure to hold those responsible for these violations to account has only fuelled further atrocities by all sides.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Syria is not a party to the Rome Statute, the treaty establishing the ICC.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Later, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) confirmed that five staff abducted in north-western Syria in January had been safely released.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Three were freed on 4 April, while the other two were freed on Wednesday and were now on their way to be reunited with friends and relatives, the medical charity said in a statement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It strongly condemned the &#8220;cynical act&#8221;, which forced it to permanently close one hospital and two health centres in the Jabal Akrad region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>BBC NEWS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 43 people have been killed in a car bombing near the border between Syria and Turkey, activists say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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