Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmada" id="mwASw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sarmada">Sarmada</a>, Syria.<sup about="#mwt70" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_12#cite_note-12" id="mwAS0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAS4">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt67" class="citation news cs1" id="mwB3M"><a class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45162822" id="mwB3Q" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Arms depot in Syria's Idlib province kills 39 – monitor"</a>. <i id="mwB3U">BBC News World Middle East</i>. August 12, 2018.</cite><span about="#mwt67" class="Z3988" id="mwB3Y" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+News+World+Middle+East&amp;rft.atitle=Arms+depot+in+Syria%27s+Idlib+province+kills+39+%E2%80%93+monitor&amp;rft.date=2018-08-12&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-middle-east-45162822&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+12"></span></span>