Aug. 12 (UPI) -- At least 39 people were killed in an explosion in a weapons depot at the base of a residential building in Syria on Sunday.
The victims, including 12 children and nine women, were killed in the blast at the bottom of a building in the town of Sarmada, and the death toll was expected to rise as multiple people were left in critical condition and others remained missing, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.