The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Two children killed or wounded in explosion of old landmine in rural Ain Issa

SOHR activists have documented the death of a child and injury of another one in explosion of an old landmine, planted by ISIS, in Al-Arasi village in the western countryside of Ain Issa town, north of Al-Raqqah city.

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 261 people including 65 women and 75 children, by mines and IED explosions and the collapse of cracked residential buildings in several areas of the Syrian territory in Homs, Hama, Deir Ezzor, Aleppo and the Syrian South since early January 2019.

Among the total death toll, there are 45 persons, including 30 women and five children, were killed during their search and collection of the truffle which grows in the areas that is subjected to heavy rain, and it is sold at very high prices.