State news says explosions caused by short circuit, not by Israeli missiles.
Syria’s state media denied reports of an Israeli airstrike on an airbase outside the capital of Damascus, claiming the explosions were caused by an electrical problem at an munitions dump. “No Israeli aggression on Mazzeh airport and the explosions heard in Damascus are explosions of ammunitions warehouses near the airport caused by short circuit,” the official Syrian news agency SANA quoted a military official as saying of the incident which occurred shortly after midnight and caused a series of large explosions.
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