The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Old ordnance explosions | Regime soldier killed in Hama’s Murek

SOHR activists have documented the killing of regime soldier due to the explosion of an old landmine in the regime-controlled city of Murek in the northern countryside of Hama.

 

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 284 people including 65 women and 81 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.