Landmine explosion kills young man in Al-Hasakah’s Abu Rasin

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of a young man due to the explosion of an old landmine nearby Aniq Al-Hawa village in the countryside of Abu Rasin town (Zarkan), north of Al-Hasakah.

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 269 people including 65 women and 77 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.