A series of explosions killed at least 12 people and injured more than 100 in a arms depot in northwestern Syria on Thursday, said an instructor.
“Multiple explosions in a warehouse of arms and ammunition belonging to the Islamic Party of Turkistan (TIP) killed at least 12 people and injured more than 100 in Maaret Melin, in the north of the province of Idlib,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The people killed included a woman and a child, said the British instructor, who relies on a network of sources in the field.
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The Council is an active jihadist group in the Idlib region, made up of Uighur fighters who joined the Syrian Civil War to fight the former President Bashar Al-Assad.
The Syrian Ministry of Health had reported four deaths and 116 injured in the explosions, in a preliminary assessment published by the official news agency Sana.
The authorities did not immediately say what could have caused the explosions.
AFP images showed a huge plume of white smoke on the city, where several children were among the injured.
