18 Women Killed in Car Bomb Explosion in Syria

A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city on Monday, killing at least 19 people, all but one of them women, and leaving more than a dozen wounded, hospital workers said.

- AP

The car detonated next to a vehicle carrying mostly female agricultural workers on the outskirts of the city of Manbij. The dead included 18 women and one man, a nurse at the hospital, Mohammad Ahmad, said. Another 15 women were wounded, some of them in critical condition, according to the local Syrian civil defense.