Syria's Ministry of Defence reported that 11 soldiers were killed and nine others wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache within an army position in the town of Ayyash, western Deir Az Zor, on Friday. The military held a funeral procession for the soldiers on Saturday. The cause of the blast has not yet been determined, and an investigation is underway. This marks the second such incident at a Syrian military site in less than two weeks, following a September 9 explosion in Idlib that killed 14 soldiers.