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.
Western media reported earlier that a series of blasts that hit the al-Mezzeh airbase not far from Damascus on Sunday left at least two people dead and eleven injured.
Syrian state-run media rejected allegations of an Israeli air strike on the airbase, saying that an electrical fault at a storage facility where decommissioned munitions were kept was the actual cause of the explosions.