Car bomb explosion kills nineteen in northern Syria's Al-Bab
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It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attack.
At least nineteen people were killed and many others wounded in the town of Al-Bab in northern Syria.
Turkish-controlled town of Al-Bab is located 18 miles from the Syrian-Turkish border in the Aleppo province.
The bomb was planted in a car which was parked on the side of the road before a garage door when it exploded.
The blast struck a bus and taxi station in the town, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
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Turkey and its Syrian proxies control several pockets of territory on the Syrian side of the border as a result of successive incursions in 2016, 2018 and 2019.
(With inputs from agencies)