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Syria airbase blast toll tops 30 regime fighters: monitor

Published: 03 Aug 2019 - 06:16 pm | Last Updated: 02 Nov 2021 - 06:15 pm
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Beirut: A munitions blast killed 31 regime and allied fighters at a military airport in central Syria Saturday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, increasing an earlier toll.
State news agency SANA reported earlier that a "technical fault during the transport of expired ammunition" had killed an unspecified number of victims at the Shayrat airbase in Homs province.
 

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