Old ordnance | Landmine explosions kill five children in Deir ez-Zor and Daraa provinces

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented today the death of three children, as a result of the explosion of a minefield in al-Hamdan desert near the city of Albu Kamal in eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has just documented the death of a child and a little girl and the serious injury of six others, as a result of the explosion of a landmine left over from the war, on the outskirts of Al-Sheikh Miskin city in Daraa countryside.

This brings the number of victims of landmine explosions and old ordnance in Syria to five.

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 421 fatalities, including 71 women and 135 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