JINHA

KOBANÊ – The people of Kobanê, Rojava have laid to rest 120 civilians who were massacred in a Daesh attack on the city on Thursday. Three victims were also buried across the border in Turkey.

On Thursday, members of the Daesh gang launched several simultaneous attacks in multiple parts of Kobanê canton, one of the three cantons of the Rojava autonomous region in Syria. 152 people died in the attack. The main attack took place in the city center, where gang members exploded several vehicles and opened fire indiscriminately on civilians, killing 126. Gang members simultaneously raided several villages in the canton, executing 26 civilians in the village of Berxbotan.

Many of the wounded in the attack were brought to Turkey's province of Urfa, which borders Kobanê to the north, for treatment. The Daesh siege that lasted until January of this year had devastated what medical infrastructure existed in Kobanê. Six of those hospitalized in Turkey have died; however, ongoing clashes between YPG/YPJ forces and Daesh invaders have made it impossible for their bodies to be returned to Kobanê.

Friday afternoon, the people of Kobanê buried 120 of the victims of the massacre. Families, relatives and locals attended cemeteries for 72 of the victims in the city cemetery and 48 in the village of Helincê. Meanwhile, in Turkey,three more victims of the massacre were buried in Urfa province because they could not be brought across the border to Kobanê.

The Rojava Institution of Martyrs' Families, which released the most recent death and injury count for the massacre, said that 180 civilians were wounded in the attack and that the level of casualties may continue to rise.

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