At least eleven people have been killed due to a series of explosions at a munitions dump in southern Cyprus, state television reports.

Several huge explosions hit the Zygi naval base early on Monday morning.
“There were 98 containers of gunpowder. Two of them
[caught] fire and huge explosions occurred,” the Cyprus News Agency quoted a police spokesman as saying.
Kostas Yennaris, a journalist for Greek national television who is based in Nicosia, the capital, told Al Jazeera that there was a “huge explosion” and that ambulances and fire trucks were seen rushing to the scene.
He said that the site of the blasts had been cordoned off by the authorities, but debris from the explosions had been spread “over a huge area”. Local media reported that the explosions caused wildfires in adjacent scrubland.
State television broadcast images of damaged vehicles, twisted road signs and debris strewn across a wide area. Businesses located close to the site of the explosion reported that their windows had been blown out by the force of the blast.
Aliki Stylinaou, a defense ministry spokeswoman, said that the death toll could not immediately be confirmed, but local media reported that at least 11, with as many as 30 feared injured.
The dead included five firefighters, four National Guard members and two sailors.
“It looks like a bombed-out landscape,” a witness told Sigma television.
A spokesman for the state-run electricity authority said that the blasts, which struck shortly before 0600 local time (0300GMT), also damaged the island's largest power station.
“We can't assess the extent of the damage, but it's a biblical disaster,” spokesman Costas Gavrielides told the Reuters news agency.
Yiannis Tsouloftas, an official with the utility, said that the station had sustained extensive damage as a result of the concussion wave of the blast. He said that it would remain offline for at least Monday, with the island's two smaller power stations attempting to cover electricity demand.
(Source: Agencies)
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