Ammon News - Two people were killed and at least 70 injured in an explosion in the Idlib countryside of northwestern Syria, the state news agency SANA said on Thursday.

Raed Al-Sale, Syria’s minister of emergency and disaster management, said in a post on X that civil defence teams rushed to the scene of a blast of unknown causes in the town of Maarrat Misrin in the northern Idlib countryside.

He said the teams were carrying out evacuation and rescue operations despite ongoing secondary blasts that were hindering the response.

No final toll of casualties had been confirmed, he added, urging residents to avoid the site for their own safety as teams continued to work under dangerous and complex conditions. Reuters