Afrinpost – Special
Five gunmen from the Islamic militias of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood were killed yesterday, Sunday, by three explosions carried out by booby-trapped motorcycles in the city of Afrin and its countryside, according to correspondents of the “Afrinpost”.
The correspondent in the Afrin Center stated that the first explosion took place on Sunday morning, by a motorcycle bomb in front of the headquarters of the “Shield of al-Hasakah Brigade” militia affiliated to the Third Legion militia, which was the electricity collection center in one of the branches of Al-Siyassiya Street in the city center, resulting in the death of an armed man from Militia, and wounding six other people, including two Kurdish civilians.
The correspondent added that the second explosion took place in front of the customs building “restaurants of Kabsou”, by a car bomb, and killed four gunmen from the “Kabsou group” affiliated with the “Al-Shamiya Front” militia, while a similar explosion occurred in the center of the “Shara / Sharan” district resulting in no deaths of the armed men.
At the end of February 2019, a local source told the Afrinpost: “The Kurdish people are convinced that the Turkish occupation has the upper hand in the bombing operations, and that those who carry out the bombings are the militants of the Islamic militias themselves,” noting that the cause of the bombings occurred according to the view of the Afrini people, Lies in the desire of the occupation forces to destabilize the security of the area, even if some of the settlers are among the victims!
The source stressed that the Islamic militias have an interest in the occurrence of these explosions, in order to attribute them to the Kurdish fighters, and therefore legislated for themselves to implement new kidnappings campaigns against the Kurdish population in the areas near the bombing sites, and the source inferred that the militants kidnapped “approximately 50 Kurdish citizens from the region The industrial city under the pretext of explosions and investigation, after the explosion of a bus near the “Kawa roundabout” near the industrial zone, on the twentieth of January 2019, coinciding with the tragedy of the first invasion, where kidnappings continue after any bombing for a full month, to be followed by the implementation of a new explosion, and a return to the previous kidnapping series ”
