A suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State has rocked northeastern Syria on Tuesday. The monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least sixteen people were killed in the attack at a bakery in the mostly Kurdish-controlled city of Hasaka.

The group reported that three children and two women were among those killed, with several others injured.

Islamic State said in an online statement that one of its members carried out the attack. The extremist group said the attack targeted the Kurdish YPG militia, which captured large areas of the territory from ISIL in northeastern Syria last year.