Government says blast happened in ‘depot for war remnants’; monitoring group says base used by ‘non-Syrian fighters’.
An explosion at a depot for unexploded ordnance on the outskirts of Idlib city in northwest Syria has killed at least four people, state media has reported, without identifying its cause.
News agency SANA, citing the Health Ministry, reported at least “four dead and five others injured” in the blast, which occurred on Thursday.
The Ministry for Emergency and Disaster Management said in a statement that the “large blast” occurred “in a depot for war remnants”.
War monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that “successive large explosions” had ripped through “a base for non-Syrian fighters containing a weapons depot”.
