Aleppo | Turkish-backed factions send in military columns to Sajo village, and IED explodes in military vehicle in rural Afrin

Aleppo Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR sources say that an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded today in a military vehicle on Meydanki road, north of the city of Afrin. No casualties have been reported.

On the other hand, Turkish-backed factions and military police sent in military columns to the village of Sajo in northern Aleppo countryside, in the event of new clashes between the village’s gunmen and others from Tal Rifaat. 

Reliable sources have told SOHR that the gunmen of Tal Refaat and “Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah” have reached an agreement in Saju town in northern Aleppo at Syria-Turkey border. The agreement stipulates for the withdrawal of the people of Tal Refaat from Saju town and remove all armed presence. This agreement comes after bloody fight with heavy weapons and rockets, which lasted for nearly seven hours, between gunmen displaced from Tal Refaat and gunmen form Saju.

The fight left four fatalities (three people from Tal Refaat, including a child, and a fighter of “Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah” from Saju), while ten others, including civilians, sustained injuries. The fight followed altercation between a young man from Tal Refaat and members of a checkpoint affiliated to “Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah” led to the killing of a child from Tal Refaat by the checkpoint’s members