Qamishli: At least 44 people were killed and over a hundred injured in a devastating bomb blast claimed by the ISIS in the Kurdish-majority Syrian city of Qamishli on Wednesday, July 27.

Sources gave a a toll of 44 dead and 140 injured in the bombing. This is said to be the largest and deadliest attack to hit the city since the March 2011 outbreak of Syria’s conflict.

Officials said that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck, adding that the blast detonated a nearby fuel container. The blast left devastating scenes with distraught civilians, some covered in blood, staggering through rubble past twisted metal and the burned-out remains of cars. Children could be heard screaming as smoke rose from small fires that continued to burn amongst the rubble. The explosion was so powerful it shattered the windows of shops in the Turkish town of Nusaybin, directly across the border.

Local security forces along with civilians worked to carry the dead and wounded from the remains of damaged and destroyed buildings.

Territory that Islamic State controls in that area was a major supply route to the outside world via the Turkish-Syrian border, through which it moved weapons and fighters.