Islamic State militants carried out a new attack on the city of Kobane in northern Syria on Thursday, where Kurdish forces had previously pushed out the group with aid from U.S.-led coalition airstrikes.
The attack is just the latest in a months long fight for control of the strategic location at the border with Turkey.
Two Turkish officials say Thursday's attack involved a suicide bomber detonating a car near the border gate that separates Kobane from the Turkish town of Mursitpinar.
Initial reports indicated that some of the injured were brought across the border into Turkey and taken in ambulances to Suruc State Hospital.
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Turkish news outlet Anadolu Agency reported that the ISIS militants may have disguised themselves as Kurdish fighters before carrying out the attack.
Anadolu Agency posted a video, allegedly showing the moment a car bomb was detonated near the border.
#Turkey | Video posted by Anadolu Agency showing a car coming from west #Kobani to hit the border gate. pic.twitter.com/CxrXjJDyDv— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) June 25, 2015
One official told the Associated Press that the number of wounded was 41, while another said that 43 were injured and and one person, a child, had been killed.
Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to brief reporters on record.
Tens of thousands of residents of Kobane fled into nearby Turkey when Islamic State fighters drove them out in the fall of 2014. Many had been cautiously returning home after the city was liberated in January, but U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on the town and ground battles between Kurds and ISIS militants had reduced portions of the city to rubble.
Kurdish YPG fighters have been locked in a struggle for the area with Islamic State militants and have most recently been involved in clashes near the city of Tal Abyad.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.