Blast in Syria coastal city kills three: state media

Syria: At Least 3 Dead in Blast, Cause Unclear

Illustrative. A man inspects a damaged car in Latakia, after hundreds were reportedly killed in some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country’s new Islamist rulers, Syria, March 9, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Haidar Mustafa i24 News – A blast occurred in Syria’s coastal city of Latakia on Saturday, killing at least three people and leaving 12 others wounded, local med…

Death toll from explosion in Syria’s Latakia increases to 10

A blast in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia killed at least 10 people, adding that it was triggered by a scrap dealer mishandling unexploded ordnance. SANA news agency earlier reported that "the death toll from the explosion at a hardware store" in Latakia's southern neighbourhood of Al-Rimal had been eight. The news agency said three children and a woman were among the victims of the blast at the store inside a four-storey building. "Fourteen…

Blast in Syria coastal city kills three: state media

Latakia blast kills three, injures 12, with cause unknown - state media reports casualties in Syrian city.

Damascus (Al-Ittihad) A powerful explosion rocked the city of Tartous in western Syria yesterday. Eyewitnesses reported that the sound was clearly heard from the port overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, while no smoke or flames were seen from the area, to which ambulances rushed. No official body provided information about the incident, while posts on social media said that the sound of the explosion was caused by a Russian warship shooting down …

Damascus: The death toll from an explosion in the city of Latakia in western Syria on Saturday has risen to at least 16, according to a new toll reported by the Syrian Civil Defense on Sunday. On the X platform, the Civil Defense reported that “a woman was removed from the rubble of the demolished residential building in the southern Raml neighborhood in Lattakia city at dawn on Sunday due to an explosion in a hardware shop [...]

Syria: Latakia explosion death toll rises to 8

The death toll from an explosion at a commercial store in the southern Raml neighborhood