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| Three killed in blast in Syria's Latakia UPDATE: 16 bodies after scrap metal dealer dismantled munition from 2012 civil war | |
| 2025-03-16 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] At least three people were killed in a powerful explosion in southern Syria's Latakia. This was reported by the Al Watan publication. It is noted that the explosion occurred in a four-story building in the Er-Raml district. People remain under the rubble. Civil defense teams have begun clearing away debris, and medics are helping the victims. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on March 6, clashes broke out in Latakia between supporters of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and forces of the country's new government. Clashes also began in the province of Tartus. The republic's authorities sent troops into these regions. According to the Kurdish television channel Rudaw on March 8, more than 500 civilians were killed in armed clashes in Syria. On March 9, fighting broke out in the port city of Baniyas in Tartus province, where pro-Assad forces attacked a gas power plant to destroy the city's energy infrastructure, while government forces tried to retake the facility. By March 11, Syrian government forces had stopped attempts at attacks by armed supporters of former President Assad, said the country's Defense Ministry spokesman Hassan Abdel Ghani. War monitor says unexploded ordnance triggered deadly blast on Syrian coast [IsraelTimes] Unwent kaboom!ordnance triggered a blast in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, a war monitor says, after state media reported three deaths in the earth-shattering kaboom. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights describes the blast as an "accident" resulting from a resident’s attempt to dismantle unwent kaboom!ordnance in the building.
The paramedic group, known as the White Helmets, said it searched through debris overnight and recovered 16 bodies, including five women and five children. Eighteen people were injured, the paramedics said. Images from Syria’s SANA news agency showed a plume of smoke rising from Latakia’s crowded southern neighborhood of Al-Rimal, and a pile of rubble where the building had once stood. The United Nations said in February that about a hundred people have been killed from exploding ordnance during the last 13 years. Since Assad’s ouster, over 1,400 unexploded devices have been safely disposed of across Syria, and 138 minefields and contaminated areas have been identified in Idleb, Aleppo, Hama, Deir Ezzor and Latakia, according to the UN. Aid agency Humanity and Inclusion warned last month that between 100,000 and 300,000 of the roughly one million munitions used during the war never detonated. Related: Latakia: 2025-03-15 Trump Administration Kicks South African Ambassador Out of the U.S. After Breitbart News Report: ‘Persona Non Grata' Latakia: 2025-03-14 Latakia governor blames Assad loyalists for civilian massacres; 1500 or 500 civilians toes up, definitely the rebels’ fault Latakia: 2025-03-12 Knocking the Chair Out from Under Erdogan: Why the Kurds Signed an 'Eternal Peace' with Damascus | |
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