The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Old ordnance | Explosion kills young man in northern Hama

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the killing of a young man due to the explosion of an old landmine, while he was plowing his farmland on the outskirts of the regime-controlled town of Khattab in the northern countryside of Hama.

 

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 312 people including 65 women and 94 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.