The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Explosion of old ordnance leaves casualties west of Daraa

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of a child, while his father sustained serious injury due to the explosion of old unexploded ordnance in Ammouriyah village, west of Daraa.

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 270 people including 65 women and 78 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.