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DAMASCUS, Aug 14, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A blast rocked Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on Thursday, state media said, reporting at least two dead and without identifying its cause.

Residents told AFP they heard the sound of explosions in the western outskirts of the provincial capital.

State news agency SANA reported "an explosion whose cause is unknown in the vicinity of the city of Idlib".

Citing the Idlib health department, state television provided an "initial toll of two dead and four wounded".

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported "the sound of successive large explosions at a base for non-Syrian fighters containing a weapons depot, as a drone was in the air".

The Britain-based monitoring group reported thick smoke and panic among residents of the area.

Late last month, a series of explosions in Idlib province killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 100, the Observatory said at the time.

Those blasts occurred at a weapons depot belonging to Uyghur jihadist group the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) in Maaret Misrin, in northern Idlib province, the monitor reported.

Authorities did not immediately say what may have caused those explosions.