A suicide bomber has blown himself up at a wedding in northeastern Syria, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens more, Syrian activists said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the violence in Syria’s civil war, said the death toll is expected to rise with many of the wounded in critical condition.
The blast went off Monday at a wedding hall just outside the northeastern city of Hasakeh. The city is mostly controlled by Kurdish forces, although the Syrian government has some strongholds there.
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, however Islamic State militants have repeatedly targeted the Kurds.
In August, Islamic State militants were blamed for bombing a Kurdish wedding in eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border. The suicide blast, in the town of Gaziantep, killed more than 50 people. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the suicide bomber was a young boy, no more than 14 years old.
