Turkey-Syria border | Group of eight people killed and missing by Jandarma gunfire and landmine explosion in Abu Racine countryside, north of Hasakeh

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the killing of two young men in an ambush by Turkish border guards, as a group of seven civilians and a smuggler entered Turkish territory from Abu Racine countryside in Hasakeh countryside.

In the meantime, the rest of the group managed to escape into Syrian territory and survived the “Jandarma” bullets. However, a landmine exploded on their way back, killing two people. While the rest of the group went missing.

Yesterday, the Syrian Observatory documented the death of a civilian in a landmine explosion near the village of Arida in countryside of Abu Racine on the Syria-Turkey border, while trying to enter Turkish territory.

According to SOHR documentation, the number of Syrian civilians killed by “Jandarma” forces, since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, has risen to 455, including 80 children under the age of eighteen and 44 women over the age of eighteen.