2nd LD: Twin car bombings target border city in northern Syria, killing 4

At least four people were killed and many others wounded on Monday, when two suicide car bombs went off at southeastern outskirts of a strategic city on Syrian-Turkish border, state news agency SANA reported.

The cars, driven by suicide bombers, were loaded with large quantities of extremely explosive materials, SANA said, adding that both bombers detonated themselves near a gas station at the outskirts of Ras al-Ayn city and the entrance of town of Masharfeh, southeast of the city.

Meanwhile, other activists said five people were killed in the explosions, which, they said, targeted positions of Kurdish fighters of People's Protection Units, or YPG, in Ras al-Ayn. They added that the YPG fighters cut off all routes leading to the city.

Ras al-Ayn, located in northern province of Hasakah, was the scene of major fighting in 2013 before Kurdish fighters routed al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and other rebels from the city, which has a border crossing with Turkey.

The Kurdish fighters backed by U.S.-led anti-terror coalition also fought the Islamic State (IS) militants in that area and its surrounding.

The city's population consists mostly of Arabs and Kurds in addition to a significant number of Assyrians. Endit