At least 20 people were killed and more than 70 others wounded on Monday in twin suicide bombings that rocked Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

A woman and her two children were among the dead, the Associated Press news agency reported.

SANA accused the Islamic State (IS) militants of being behind the blasts, saying the terror-labelled group sent over 50 booby-trapped cars into Hasakah in recent months.

The bombers struck in two totally different Hassakeh neighborhoods.

It was followed by another auto bomb an hour later in the Mahata neighborhood, state television reported.

State TV showed footage of buildings destroyed by the attacks and said rescue teams were searching the rubble of collapsed buildings for more casualties. A man is seen holding a victim and weeping.

The second targeted pro-regime forces in the city centre, the SOHR said.

That attack killed the six Kurdish forces along with 10 civilians, the Observatory said. The group stated the primary assault, in Khashman, focused a Kurdish police pressure, whereas the second hit a base for a pro-government militia.

Members of the Kurdish asayesh security forces and onlookers inspect the site of a bomb attack targeting a Kurdish checkpoint on September 14, 2015 in the Khashman district, north of the eastern Syrian city of Hasakeh, mostly Kurdish-controlled. At the end of July, the Syrian army and Kurdish fighters managed to drive the IS militants out of the province.