The car, which contained explosives, blew up in a neighbourhood where workshops are located, killing the child, three other civilians and an unidentified person, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said the corpse count could rise as 15 other people were maimed, some of them at death's door.
Afrin and other areas in northern Syria under
There is usually no claim for them, although
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...routinely blames Kurdish fighters it accuses of being "terrorists" linked to its outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
In early January, another explosives-rigged vehicle killed one civilian in the town of Jindires in the Afrin region. The same day, a boom-mobile near a vegetable market in the
In November, a boom-mobile went off near a bakery in Afrin, killing three people and wounding 16 others.
Syria's war has killed more than 387,000 people and displaced millions since starting in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.
It has evolved into a complex conflict involving jihadists and foreign powers including Turkey, which has grabbed swathes of Syrian territory along its southern border during several military campaigns.
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