MOSCOW. Sep 3 (Interfax) - Sunday's explosions at the Syrian airbase al-Mezzeh were not prompted by Israeli aggression but caused by a short-circuit, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said.
"As far as we understood from the sources in the Defense Ministry, it was an electrical fault due to overheating that caused these explosions," Muallem said on the Rossiya 24 (VGTRK) television.
"These explosions did not result from any illegal Israeli aggression," Muallem said.