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A powerful explosion on Wednesday in Syria‘s rebel-held northwest killed 15 people – including more than a dozen civilians – as rescuers searched for victims trapped under the rubble.
A building of at least four storeys collapsed in the town of Jisr al-Shughour in Idlib province, a region controlled by Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate.
A structure opposite partially caved in while surrounding buildings appeared on the verge of collapse.
A civil defence worker could be seen easing himself under a massive slab of fallen concrete to search for victims, as three colleagues crouched by his side to help.
Thirteen civilians were among those killed in the blast, the cause of which was not immediately clear, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor.
The explosion could have been the result of a car bomb or a vehicle carrying explosives that detonated, it said.
But bystanders and the head of the local civil defence unit, Abdelwahab al-Abdu, said they did not know what caused it
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/15-killed-huge-blast-northwest-syria-190424153654598.html
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