SDF’s old ordnance | Landmine explodes killing and injuring four children in northern countryside of Raqqa

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the death of two children in a landmine explosion planted earlier by the SDF in the area of Haymer in northern countryside of Raqqa in its areas of control, close to the areas held by Turkish forces and their proxy factions. The explosion also injured two children.  

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 381 fatalities, including 71 women and 115 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.