Report: Blast at Syrian air base kills 26 soldiers


PTI, Aug 4, 2019, 2:44 PM IST

Damascus: A Syrian pro-government newspaper is reporting 26 soldiers, including seven officers, have been killed in an explosion blamed on a technical error in central Syria.

Al-Watan quoted a military official as describing Saturday’s explosion at the Shayrat air base in the Homs province as severe.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-linked group that monitors the war, put the death toll at 31. It said the cause of the explosion was unclear.

The US targeted the air base in 2017 following a chemical weapons attack on opposition areas that Washington blamed on Damascus.

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