Blast at arms depot kills five in Syria’s Idlib: Security forces

An explosion at a weapons depot in northwest Syria’s Idlib province killed five people and wounded nine others on Wednesday, security forces said in a statement.

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The victims were still under the rubble and rescue teams were continuing recovery operations, state-run Ekhbariya TV said, citing an official.

There have been explosions at around a dozen arms depots in Syria over the last year. The explosions have usually been blamed on poor storage. The Idlib region was a bastion of rebel groups including foreign fighters before Islamist-led forces overthrew longtime ruler Bashar Al Assad last December in a lightning offensive.