At least four people were killed and 10 others wounded in an explosion at a weapons warehouse near the town of Sarmada in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, according to state media. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear. Such incidents are a relatively common occurrence in the country, the Associated Press reported.
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