Old ordnance | Explosion in eastern Idlib leaves three casualties

SOHR activists have documented the killing of two persons and the injury of another one in the explosion of an old landmine in a farmland in Al-Nayrab town in the eastern countryside of Idlib, while they were picking figs.

 

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 322 people including 65 women and 99 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.