39 civilians killed in Syria weapons depot blast: monitor

Beirut (AFP) – An explosion at a weapons depot killed 39 civilians including 12 children in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib on 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, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.