Unexploded ordnances | Landmine explodes killing police officer and another person in regime-controlled city of Murek, north of Hama

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the death of an officer of the regime’s police department and another person and the injury of a third person as a result of a landmine explosion left over from the war, in the regime-controlled city of Murek in northern Hama countryside.

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 282 fatalities, including 65 women and 80 children. Of the total number, the Syrian Observatory documented the deaths of 45 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.