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Syria war: Many dead in IS attack on displaced people's camp | |
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More than 30 civilians and Kurdish-led fighters have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants near Syria's north-eastern border with Iraq. | |
Suicide bombers reportedly targeted a camp for displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees at Rajm al-Salibi, south-east of Shaddadi in Hassakeh province. | |
Cashes then erupted between other militants and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces stationed nearby. | |
The US-backed alliance is spearheading the battle against IS in eastern Syria. | |
Its Kurdish and Arab fighters are close to taking control of the strategically important Euphrates River Valley town of Tabqa and will soon launch an offensive to retake the de facto IS capital of Raqqa. | |
Five IS suicide bombers blew themselves up outside and inside the camp at Rajm al-Salibi, according to the Syrian Observatory, a UK-based monitoring group. | |
At least 32 people were killed by the bombings and subsequent clashes, among them 21 civilians, and 30 other people were wounded, it reports. | |
Syria's official Sana news agency reported that more than 34 people had died, while the Kurdish ANHA website said 22 bodies had been recovered by the Kurdish Red Crescent. | |
SDF fighters took wounded civilians to hospitals in and the city of Hassakeh. | |
Most of the victims were women and children, the pro-Syrian government al-Mayadeen TV channel cited the head of the Iraqi parliament's human rights committee as saying. | |
There are several camps for refugees and displaced people in border areas controlled by the SDF. | |
Kurdish media say IS militants sporadically attack civilians trying to reach them. |