The blast on Wednesday also wounded 11 people, and think smoke from a resulting fire billowed from the site for hours. Syria’s defence ministry said some of its personnel were among those wounded, according to , Earlier, the state news agency reported that emergency teams had been immediately dispatched after the explosion at Burj Elnumra village in northern Idlib’s countryside. However, secondary explosions hampered firefighting teams from extinguishing the fires.
Emergency teams are however searching for survivors trapped under the rubble. An news photographer reported seeing bodies recovered at the scene. Authorities have not clarified what caused the explosion but incidents like these are common in Syria which has only recently emerged from more than a decade of war.
The destroyed depot was used to store weapons and munitions from the Syrian uprising and civil war which lasted between 2011 and 2024, the state news agency, SANA reported, citing the defence ministry. Earlier, on September 1, a vehicle carrying ammunition exploded in Binnish, also in Idlib province, killing five people and wounding others, according to Syrian state media.
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