Over 44 have been killed, 140 injured in a massive bomb blast in northern Syrian town of Qamishli, state media have announced.

At least 140 people were also injured when a terrorist in a vehicle laden with explosives blew himself up in a western neighborhood of the city on Wednesday, the official SANA news agency said.

The Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack which was initially described as a double bombing.  

The area targeted houses where local Kurdish officials live. Qamishli, on the border with Turkey, is dominated by Syrian Kurds.

According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the explosions targeted a local police station and the headquarters of the local administration for the Hasaka province.

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