50 wounded in blast at Gaza training camp
AFP
Mei 15, 2015 00:05 MYT
Mei 15, 2015 00:05 MYT
Palestinians carry an injured man as they arrive at a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia on May 14, 2015, following a blast inside a training camp. - AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED
At least 50 Palestinians were wounded in a blast that occurred Thursday inside a militant training camp in Gaza, Hamas officials, medics and witnesses said.
"An explosion happened inside a post of the resistance in Beit Lahya," said interior ministry spokesman Iyad al-Bozum, in reference to the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas.
The health ministry spokesman in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qudra, said the blast wounded 50 people, five of them in a serious condition, and including children.
Witnesses said the blast took place inside a training camp of the Ezzezdine al-Qassam Brigades in the northern Gaza Strip, where Hamas is the de facto power.
A doctor in the Israeli-blockaded coastal enclave, Baker Abu Safia of Al-Awda Hospital, said 30 wounded people were brought to his establishment, most of them women and children.
He said the hospital "declared a state of emergency" after the explosion took place.