The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Landmine explosions | Child dies in Al-Hasakah’s Tal Tamr

SOHR activists documented the death of a child in the explosion of an old landmine in Tal Tamr town in the north-western countryside of Al-Hasakah.

 

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 352 people including 69 women and 104 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.