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39 civilians killed in Syria weapons depot blast: monitor
BEIRUT, Aug 12, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – An explosion at a weapons depot killed 39
civilians including 12 children in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib
on Sunday, a war monitor said.
The toll rose after more bodies were retrieved from the rubble caused by
the blast of unknown origin at the depot in a residential building in the
town of Sarmada, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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