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Pro-Turkey fighters, civilians among dead and injured in Northern Syria border town Tel Abyad, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
A Syrian man stands next to a burning motorcycle at the site of a car bomb explosion in Tel Abyad.AFP via Getty Images
The site of the car bombing that killed 13 people.
The site of the car bombing that killed 13 people.AFP via Getty Images
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Pro-Turkey fighters, civilians among dead and injured in Northern Syria border town Tel Abyad, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
People walk by a burned motorcycle at the scene of the car bombing.AFP via Getty Images
The remnants of a vehicle after the car bombing.
The remnants of a vehicle after the car bombing.AP
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A car bomb killed 13 people Saturday in a market in the Northern Syria border town of Tal Abyad.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which also wounded about 20. Turkey’s Defense Ministry blamed the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, the group it targeted when it sent troops over the border Oct. 9.

A spokesman for the main Kurdish-led force in Syria, Mustafa Bali, blamed Turkey for the blast, stating that Turkey and the Syrian fighters it backs “are now creating chaos” in Tal Abyad, which was captured last month by Turkey-backed gunmen, to displace the Kurds who live in the town. “Turkey is responsible for civilian casualties in the region it controls,” Bali tweeted, The Associated Press reported.

Tel Abyad is one of two major border towns that saw the heaviest fighting when Ankara launched its incursion.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said pro-Turkey fighters and civilians were among the dead and injured.

The explosion came a day after Turkish and Russian troops began joint ground patrols under a deal between the two countries that pushed the YPG from Turkey’s border, Reuters reported.

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