{"id":11266,"date":"2018-08-12T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11266"},"modified":"2018-08-12T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T15:24:11","slug":"syria-weapons-depot-blast-kills-12-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11266","title":{"rendered":"Syria weapons depot blast kills 12 civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1355061\/middle-east\" readability=\"55\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: An explosion at a weapons depot in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib killed at least 39 civilians\u00a0on Sunday, a war monitor said.<br \/>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.<\/p>\n<p>\nTwelve of the dead were chiuldren, the\u00a0Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.An AFP correspondent at the site in the rebel-held town of Sarmada near the Turkish border said the explosion caused two buildings to collapse.<br \/>On Sunday morning, rescue workers used a bulldozer to remove rubble and extract trapped people, the correspondent said.<br \/>A rescue worker carried the motionless body of a small child from the wreckage to an ambulance, the AFP correspondent said.<br \/>Behind mounds of rubble, the facade of a building was scorched black, due to a fire after the blast.<br \/>A civil defense source told AFP that women and children were among the dead.<br \/>But rescue workers had pulled out \u201cfive people who were still alive,\u201d the source said.<br \/>Most of Idlib is controlled by rebels and hardlime groups led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, but the Daesh group also has sleeper cells in the area.<br \/>The regime holds a small slither of southeastern Idlib.<br \/>In recent months, a series of explosions and assassinations \u2014 mainly targeting rebel officials and fighters \u2014 have rocked the province.<br \/>While some attacks have been claimed by Daesh, most are the result of infighting since last year between various other groups.<br \/>In recent days, regime forces have ramped up their deadly bombardment of southern Idlib and sent reinforcements to nearby areas they control.<br \/>President Bashar Assad has warned that government forces intend to retake Idlib, after his Russia-backed regime regained control of swathes of rebel held territory elsewhere.<br \/>Around 2.5 million people live in the province, half of them displaced by fighting in other parts of the country.<br \/>More than 350,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since Syria\u2019s civil war started in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: An explosion at a weapons depot in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib killed at least 39 civilians\u00a0on 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. Twelve of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}