<p>At least five people were killed and scores wounded when a car bomb detonated in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, the Turkish defence ministry and local civil defence said.</p>.<p>The ministry said in a statement the bomb attack took place in an industrial site at the centre of the town and wounded 22 people, blaming the attack on the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.</p>.<p>There was no immediate comment from the YPG.</p>.<p>Turkey regards the YPG as a terrorist group tied to the PKK inside its own borders and has staged incursions into Syria in support of Syrian rebels to push it from the Turkish frontier.</p>.<p>Ankara now retains a large military presence in the area deploying thousands of troops in the last rebel enclave.</p>.<p>The local civil defence said the death toll due to the bomb stood at six, including children. </p>
<p>At least five people were killed and scores wounded when a car bomb detonated in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, the Turkish defence ministry and local civil defence said.</p>.<p>The ministry said in a statement the bomb attack took place in an industrial site at the centre of the town and wounded 22 people, blaming the attack on the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.</p>.<p>There was no immediate comment from the YPG.</p>.<p>Turkey regards the YPG as a terrorist group tied to the PKK inside its own borders and has staged incursions into Syria in support of Syrian rebels to push it from the Turkish frontier.</p>.<p>Ankara now retains a large military presence in the area deploying thousands of troops in the last rebel enclave.</p>.<p>The local civil defence said the death toll due to the bomb stood at six, including children. </p>