The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Old ordnances | Landmine explodes killing two children and injuring others in northern rural Hama

SOHR activists say that a landmine left over from the war exploded near the new eastern cemetery in the eastern neighbourhood of Souran city, north of Hama, killing two children, aged seven and six, and injuring two others, one of them in critical condition.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory has monitored a landmine explosion near Souran city. Five citizens were injured, including a woman and two children, while they were picking capers on the agricultural land around the city.

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 298 fatalities, including 65 women and 87 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.