At least 8 people killed in explosion in Syria's Latakia

Ordnance from Syria’s 13-year conflict explodes in port city, killing at least 16 people
Rescuers searched through debris and recovered 16 bodies, including five women and five children, and reported that 18 others were injured.
Rescuers search the rubble after a building collapse in Latakia, Syria, kills at least 16 people
Ordnance from Syria's 13-year conflict exploded in the coastal city of Latakia, collapsing a building and killing more than a dozen people, the Syrian Civil Defense said Sunday.
At least eight people killed in explosion in Syria's Latakia
The death toll from a powerful explosion on Saturday that rocked the city of Latakia on the Syrian coast has risen to eight, including three women and a girl. Fourteen were injured, Syria's state news agency SANA reported.
At least 16 people dead in blast from suspected old bomb in Syria
Experts estimate that between 100,000 and 300,000 of the roughly one million munitions used during the Syrian civil war never detonated.An unexploded bomb from Syria's 13- year conflict exploded in the coastal city of Lattakia,
Ordnance blast kills 16 and collapses building in Syria
The explosion occurred in a metal scrap storage space on the ground floor of a four-storey building in Latakia.
Blast in Syria coastal city kills three: state media
A blast in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia killed at least three people on Saturday, state media reported, with a war monitor saying it was triggered by unexploded ordnance.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor later described the blast as an "accident" resulting from a resident's attempt to dismantle unexploded ordnance in the building.
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