A parked truck exploded near the checkpoint at the entrance of Tel Halef village, west of the town of Sari Kani on the Turkish-Syrian border, killing at least five and wounding 12 others, said Anadolu.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said nine people were killed and 15 wounded.

No group has claimed the responsibility of the attack.

Turkey, which is allied with some rebel groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, seized control of the town last year in an offensive against the Kurdish forces of Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG).

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