The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) cited the health ministry, reporting that "four people, including two children, were killed and five others, including one child, were maimed in a kaboom that occurred this morning in a residential building on the outskirts of Idlib city."
SANA added that "authorities are still investigating the cause of the blast." Syrian Civil Defense teams immediately launched rescue operations and extinguished fires sparked by the earth-shattering kaboom. "They are on alert to secure the site and prevent the fire from spreading to neighboring buildings," the agency noted.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow.
Take that, Ike!he yelled......
local authorities in Idlib told Rudaw that the earth-shattering kaboom occurred in an arms depot.
Abed Kontar, director of media relations in Idlib province, affiliated with the Syrian information ministry, said the blast took place at an "ammunition and war remnants warehouse," adding that "it was not the result of an aerial attack."
"There was no aviation in the area and no sound of missiles was heard," Kontar said, suggesting that "the earth-shattering kaboom was likely caused by high temperatures and poor storage conditions."
He also stated that "the identities of the dear departed had not yet been confirmed," and it remains unclear "whether they were civilians or military personnel."
For its part, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which relies on a network of sources inside Syria, reported on Thursday that "several
According to SOHR, the incident "resulted in four deaths and five injuries among those fighters."
The monitor added that the earth-shattering kabooms "coincided with drone activity in the area" but did not specify who the drone belonged to.
This latest incident follows a similar explosion in late July, when "a series of blasts inside a warehouse belonging to the ’Turkistan Islamic Party’" in northern Idlib "resulting in 12 deaths" and "107 civilian injuries, with unconfirmed reports of casualties among Turkistan nationals whose fate was being kept quiet."
Following a swift offensive in early December, a coalition of opposition groups, led by the now-dissolved Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...- then-headed by Ahmed al-Sharaa - toppled the regime of longtime Syrian dictator Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
. In late January, Sharaa was appointed Syria’s interim president.
Since then, explosions at "war remnants depots" and incidents involving unwent
kaboom!ordnance have emerged as a major cause of casualties, particularly in Idlib province.
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