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Suicide bomber kills more than 20 at Syria Kurdish festival: Monitor

AFP , Friday 20 Mar 2015

A suicide bomber killed more than 20 people in an attack Friday on a Kurdish festival at Hasakeh in northeastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

"More than 20 people were killed when a kamikaze bomber detonated his explosives at a gathering in Hasakeh on the eve of (Kurdish new year) Nowruz," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Dozens more were wounded, he added.

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