Syrian opposition head says Turkish border explosion aimed against him

Head of the Syrian National Council George Sabra said that the explosion that occurred yesterday at the Cilvegozu checkpoint on the Turkish-Syrian border was directed against his convoy, Al Arabiya TV channel reported today.

He said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime deliberately carried out an attack on the border when he was heading to Turkey along with a delegation of the Syrian National Council.

The death toll as a result of an explosion in the province of Hatay killed 13 people, three of whom were Turkish and 10 were Syrian. Around 27 more were injured, nine of them Turks.

A powerful explosion occurred in a car bomb attack bearing a Syrian licence plate.

The car was travelling from Syria to the Turkish province of Hatay through the Cilvegozu checkpoint on the Turkish-Syrian border near the town of Reyhanlı. The car was parked in a parking lot where deliveries of humanitarian aid are made to Syria. The explosion occurred at 15:00 local time.