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Syria blames wartime remnants for blast near Idlib

Nighttime footage shows a large fireball, while an official Syrian account relayed on air reports no deaths and says the fire was contained.

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An orange fireball lights the night sky near Saraqib, east of Idlib in northwestern Syria, followed by a rising cloud of smoke. The footage interrupts a studio discussion on Turkey's CNN TÜRK, where moderator Ahmet Hakan announces an explosion at a weapons or storage facility.

Hakan points to secondary explosions and ammunition apparently being thrown into the air after the initial blast. He says the footage was shared by RT, the Russian state-controlled international broadcaster.

The panel initially considers whether the explosion was an accident or an attack. Hakan expresses skepticism that it was accidental, while security analyst Coşkun Başbuğ draws attention to the footage's Russian source. Neither establishes evidence of sabotage or identifies an attacker.

A subsequent update brings a different explanation. Washington correspondent Yunus Paksoy relays initial information from Syria's official news agency: materials left over from the war had detonated, no deaths were reported, damage was limited to property, and the fire had been brought under control.

The segment does not independently establish the cause. Its closing update attributes the explosion to wartime remnants, rather than confirming the controlled detonation or sabotage suggested in the upload's title.

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