Daily Mail
May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016
ISIS are believed to have blown up a major gas field in Syria, triggering an earthquake around the ancient city of Palmyra.
The Shaer gas field – one of the biggest in the central province of Homs – has been the site of fierce fighting between ISIS jihadists and Syrian government loyalists.
A monitoring group said ISIS reportedly blew up several of Shaer’s pumping stations just as the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre recorded a 4.4-magnitude earthquake in the area.
‘There were three huge explosions there carried out by ISIS on Monday,’ said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. He had no immediate word on casualties.
The explosions reportedly even shook Palmyra, the ancient oasis city about 30 miles southeast of Shaer, according to reports posted on Twitter.
Syria’s army recaptured Palmyra from ISIS on March 27 after about 10 months of jihadist rule over the city.
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