10 killed in car blast near Turkey-Syria border

February 11, 2013 23:21

AFP: At least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded when a car exploded today near the border between Turkey and Syria, officials said, although the cause was not immediately clear.

A Syrian-registered car is believed to have been at the centre of the blast in a buffer zone at the frontier, a foreign ministry official told AFP, adding that the likelihood of it being a terrorist attack was "51 percent". The official said the dead included four Turks and six Syrians.

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