Death Toll Rises in Syria Weapons Depot Blast
State media said the blast at a munitions depot left 10 wounded and prompted searches for survivors under the rubble.
- On Wednesday, an explosion at a weapons warehouse near Sarmada, Idlib, Syria, killed at least four people and wounded 10 others, according to state media.
- The Defense Ministry, citing SANA, reported the warehouse stored weapons and munitions left over from the country's uprising and civil war spanning 2011 to 2024.
- A photographer for The Associated Press at the scene witnessed bodies being recovered, while Video footage showed a large plume of black smoke following the blast.
- Civil Defense and Syrian Red Crescent first-responders are continuing to search for survivors trapped under the rubble of the damaged warehouse.
- Such incidents are a common occurrence in Syria, which has been battered by over a decade of war, leaving dangerous munitions scattered across the country.
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Syrian sources reported an explosion in northern Idlib that left a number of people dead and injured.
Death toll rises in Syria weapons depot blast
The death toll has risen to three in an explosion on Wednesday inside a weapons depot in the Burj Al-Nimra area near Sarmada of northern Idlib. More than 10 people were also injured in the blast, media reports said. Teams were dispatched to the site immediately after the explosion, the operations commander at Idlib’s Emergency and Disaster Management Directorate, Walid Aslan, said. Initial assessments indicated that the blast was caused by munit…
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An explosion of unknown cause has been reported in Idlib province in northwestern Syria.
An explosion of unknown cause occurred in Idlib province in northwestern Syria. Numerous people were reported injured. According to local sources in Syria, a powerful explosion occurred near the town of Sarmada in Idlib province for an as yet undetermined reason. Syria's...
Santa's reporter reported an explosion near Sarmada in the northern countryside of Idlib.
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