Old landmine explosion kills child and injures two others in rural Tal Abyad

The Syrian war continues to claim Syrian lives in several way by more landmines and unexploded bombs planted earlier by different sides to the conflict.

The Syrian Observatory has documented the death of a child and the injury of two other children as a result of a landmine explosion in the village of Zanobia in rural Tal Abyad, north of Al-Raqqa.

An increasing number of people killed recently by a landmine, unexploded bombs, and collapse of war-damaged residential buildings in various Syrian areas and cities such as Homs, Hama Deir Ezzor, Aleppo, and southern Syria.

The Syrian Observatory has documented since January 2019 to date some 256 fatalities, including 65 women and 73 children. Of the total number, the Syrian Observatory documented the deaths of 44 people, including 30 women and five children, in their search and collect for “Syrian wild truffles”, which put their lives at risk, “Syrian wild truffles” grow in areas that are exposed to heavy rains and are sold at high prices.