(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source revealed to Zaman Al-Wasl that the 3rd August explosion in Shayrat airbase was not due to from a private source that the explosion a “technical fault during the transport of expired ammunition” but during a training on new bomb to be used in the ongoing northwest Syria offensive.
The source said the new air bomb was manufactured by the scientific research center.
The officer in chief was ‘teaching’ the military pilots and soldiers how to use the new bombs in combat missions.
The deadly explosion at the Shayrat air base in central Homs province left 31military personnel dead, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Four officers, including two Colonels, were among the deaths, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources.
The state-run news agency SANA reported that a “technical fault during the transport of expired ammunition” had killed an unspecified number of victims.
The Shayrat air base is one of the regime’s most significant installations in the center of the country. Iranian fighters, who support the regime in Syria’s ongoing civil war, are based there, according to the Observatory.
In 2017, U.S. airstrikes hit the base and killed six soldiers in response to a sarin gas attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun in northwest Syria that killed more than 80 people.
According to the Pentagon, U.S. intelligence had established that the base was the launchpad for the alleged chemical attack.
Syria's war has killed more than 560,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011 with a brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests.
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