Vehicles of a convoy of United Nations monitors observing the ceasefire in Syria were damaged by a roadside bomb in the province of Idlib in the northwest of the country but no UN personnel were injured.

Vehicles of a convoy of United Nations monitors observing the ceasefire in Syria were damaged by a roadside bomb in the province of Idlib in the northwest of the country but no UN personnel were injured, Press TV reported.

UN Spokesman Martin Nesirky underlined that a hand-made bomb exploded while a four-car convoy that transports international monitors crossed, causing no casualties, state-run news agency SANA reported.

"The explosion that took place at Khan Sheikhoun in Hama hit three cars for the monitors with damages causing no causalities," AFP quoted Nesirky as saying today.

Earlier, Ahmad Fawzi, Spokesman for the UN Special Envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan said "A blast of an explosive device caused damage to a four-vehicle convoy belonging to the UN observers in Khan Sheikhoun, near Hama."

Reuters quoted Fawzi in a message published on Twitter as saying that the explosive device was exploded in Khan Sheikhoun near Hama and no injuries reported.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. While the West and the Syrian opposition say the government is responsible for the killings, Damascus blames “outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.

Meanwhile, UN observers continue to monitor a ceasefire, which has officially been in effect for more than three weeks.
The convoy teams visited on Tuesday the cities and neighborhoods of Idleb, Homs, Douma and Hama, meeting some of the locals.

The ceasefire is part of a six-point peace plan presented by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan in March.