An explosion at a depot for unexploded ordnance on the outskirts of Idlib city in northwest Syria has killed at least four people, state media has reported, without identifying its cause.

News agency SANA, citing the Health Ministry, reported at least “four dead and five others injured” in the blast, which occurred on Thursday.

The Ministry for Emergency and Disaster Management said in a statement that the “large blast” occurred “in a depot for war remnants”.

War monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that “successive large explosions” had ripped through “a base for non-Syrian fighters containing a weapons depot”.

United Kingdom-based monitoring group SOHR, which obtains its information from a network of local informants, gave a higher toll of six dead, including t

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