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

Friday, 20 March, 2015 , 17:58

Beirut, March 20, 2015 (AFP) — 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.