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A huge explosion at a weapons depot rocked the city of Homs sending a fireball hundreds of feet into the air and killing 22.
Video of the blast was posted on YouTube by activists opposing the Bashar al Assad regime, who said dozens had also been wounded.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said: "At least 22 people, including civilians, were killed and dozens wounded, some seriously, when an ammunitions depot blew up in the pro-regime Wadi al-Zahab district after rocket fire, most probably by rebels."
At least 22 people have been killed and dozens wounded in Syria’s western city of Homs in an ammunition depot blast reportedly caused by a rocket fired by foreign-backed militants.
Originally posted by jroduk
According to the sky news article its was blamed on rebel rocket fire but that looks to me like either a cuise missile strike or a ship launched missile.
At least 40 people were killed and 120 wounded in an arms depot blast Thursday in a government-held area of Homs in central Syria, a monitoring group said.
Initially, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 22 were killed in the explosion.
“At least 22 people, including civilians, were killed and dozens wounded, some seriously, when an ammunitions depot blew up in the pro-regime Wadi al-Zahab district after rocket fire, most probably by rebels,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which gathers its information from medics and activists on the ground.
It added that the casualities included soldiers as well as civilians and that some were in critical condition.
Huge explosions rocked regime-held districts in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, sending a massive ball of fire into the sky and causing successive blasts that activists said likely came from a struck weapons depot.
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A Homs resident said thick smoke and dust could be seen from a distance, as explosions shook the ground and panicked those nearby.
A video posted online by activists showed a huge ball of fire over Homs neighborhoods.
The explosions in Homs coincided with a rare trip by President Bashar Assad to a former rebel bastion near the capital, Damascus, to mark Army Day.
Assad’s visit to Daraya is his first known public trip outside the capital, his seat of power, in more than a year. He visited the battered Baba Amr district in the central city of Homs after troops seized it from rebels in March 2012.
It also is the latest sign of confidence from Assad, whose troops have been on the offensive and scored significant gains against rebels in recent months. Assad pledged victory over troops fighting to topple him.
An alleged Israeli airstrike on a weapons warehouse in Syria failed to destroy some of the Russian-made cruise missiles that were its target, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
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American officials told the paper that while the Israeli strike destroyed the warehouse in which the weapons were stored, some of the missiles were seen moved from the site after the strike.
Further Israeli attacks against targets in Syria are likely, the report said.
The US officials revealed that the Israeli attack had been carried out by aircraft that flew low over the Mediterranean and fired missiles at their target without entering Syrian airspace.
The July 5 airstrike reportedly targeted Russian anti-ship Yakhont missiles, which would constitute game-changers if they were to be transferred to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel has warned that any delivery of advanced weapons to the Shi’ite militia was a “red line” that would precipitate military action.
According to the Times, the Israeli and American navies consider the Yakhont a serious threat to their fleets.
Any chances of testing prototypes? Possibly laser based weapon system? Just a WAG.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by jroduk
Why use a big missile when the ammunition stored there is going to provide all the boom you need.edit on 8/1/2013 by Zaphod58 because: (no reason given)