A terrorist car bomb attack killed at least 44 and injured 140 others on Wednesday in al-Qameshli city in Hasaka province.

An ISIL terrorist car bomb attack killed at least 44 and injured 140 others on Wednesday in al-Qameshli city in Hasaka province.

SANA news agency quoted a source in Hasaka as saying that a terrorist suicide bomber carried out the attack using a car bomb in al-Gharbiya neighborhood on the road between al-Hialiyeh roundabout and Youth City roundabout on the western part of the city.

The source said that scores of people were killed and injured in the attack, and that a number of residential buildings and the infrastructure in the area sustained severe damage.

Medical sources in the city told SANA’s reporter that al-Qamishli National Hospital and a number of private hospitals received the bodies of 44 victims as well as 140 injured people, some of whom sustained severe injuries, which means that the death toll is likely to rise.

For its part, the Takfiri ISIL group claimed responsibility for the attack.

In a statement circulated on social media, it said the attack was carried out by a bomber in an explosives-laden truck.

The terrorist group said the attack was "a response to the crimes committed by the crusader coalition aircraft" in the town of Manbij, a bastion of the Takfiri group in Syria's Aleppo province.