A detonation in an ammunition and missile depot in southern Syria’s Sweida killed five people, state media said, after initial reports blamed an Iranian missile, according to AFP.

“The explosion that occurred today in the city of Sweida was caused by the detonation of an ammunition and missile depot belonging to the National Guard,” a Druze group that controls Sweida, state television reported, quoting a security source, adding that it killed five people.

Syria’s official SANA news agency had earlier said that the fall of an Iranian missile onbuilding in Sweida killed four people.

United Nations peacekeepers and civilians stand near the wreckage of an Iranian rocket that was reportedly intercepted by Israeli forces in the southern Syrian countryside of Quneitra, near the Golan Heights, close to the town of Ghadir al-Bustan. — AFP
United Nations peacekeepers and civilians stand near the wreckage of an Iranian rocket that was reportedly intercepted by Israeli forces in the southern Syrian countryside of Quneitra, near the Golan Heights, close to the town of Ghadir al-Bustan. — AFP

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