Damascus, Syria — A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city on Monday, killing at least 19 people, all but one of them women, and leaving more than a dozen wounded, hospital workers said. The car detonated next to a vehicle carrying mostly female agricultural workers on the outskirts of the city of Manbij.

Another car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a city in northern Syria on Monday, killing at least 20 people and leaving over a dozen wounded, officials and emergency responders said. At least 18 women were killed in the bombing,

The Syria Civil Defence said some of the 15 wounded were in a critical condition At least 20 people, most of them women, have been killed in a car bomb attack in northern Syria, the country's presidency says.