Eleven people were killed Friday in an explosion of unknown origin at a military site in the Ayyash area, west of Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, the country's Defense Ministry announced Saturday.
Just over a week earlier, on September 9, an explosion at an arms depot in the northwest killed 14 people © Mena Today
Eleven people were killed Friday in an explosion of unknown origin at a military site in the Ayyash area, west of Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, the country's Defense Ministry announced Saturday.
The Syrian Arab Army held a funeral procession for the 11 "martyrs" killed in the blast, the official SANA news agency reported.
Firefighters and rescuers rushed to the scene when the explosion struck, though authorities did not immediately provide casualty figures at the time — leaving the toll to emerge only a day later, once the funerals were underway.
This is far from an isolated incident. Syria, still emerging from more than a decade of civil war following the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in late 2024, has been rattled by a string of mysterious blasts at military sites and arms depots in recent weeks.
Just over a week earlier, on September 9, an explosion at an arms depot in the northwest killed 14 people.
The cause of Friday's blast remains under investigation, with the Defense Ministry offering no immediate explanation for what triggered it.
With Syria's new authorities still working to secure scattered stockpiles of weapons and munitions left behind by years of conflict, each new explosion adds to mounting questions over whether these incidents are accidents born of poor storage conditions and aging ordnance, or something more deliberate.
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