A truck bombing hit a bus station in the Turkish-controlled town of al-Bab Tuesday, in northwestern Syria. The bomb killed at least 19 people and wounded 75 others, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The White Helmets said the number of casualties would increase.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, but ISIS had previously controlled al-Bab and might be trying to reassert itself. Turkey will likely prefer to blame the Kurds, though for now everyone is withholding judgement.
This area is just northeast of Aleppo, and that part of Syria has long been insecure. Al-Bab itself has faced several attacks since Turkey took it over in 2017, expelling ISIS from one of its most far-west territories.
The UN was critical of the bombing, calling it an indiscriminate attack on civilians. That tends to be how attacks in far northern Syria go, as it is rare for combat forces to be targeted in these attacks, which generally focus on gatherings of large numbers of potential casualties.
in other words, a run-down spare truck was driven to the target site and after the drivers had a sufficient amount of time to make their get-away, a patriot missile was launched at the truck = voila! a terrorist truck bomb.
Yep.. and Hellfire missiles are invisible to the naked eye once they reach speed.