Key Facts

• The explosion happened in the town of Ayyash in eastern Syria’s Deir Az Zor province.
• Eleven soldiers died and nine were wounded in the blast.
• The attack struck a weapons cache inside a Syrian Arab Army site.
• Syria’s Ministry of Defence held a funeral procession for the soldiers.
• The cause of the explosion is unknown and being investigated.
• This was the second explosion at a Syrian military site in less than two weeks.
• A previous blast on September 9 in Idlib province killed 14 soldiers and wounded others.
• Syrian officials are trying to clear abandoned weapons from many sites after the long civil war.