Old ordnance | Landmine explosion kills young man in Jisr Al-Shughour countryside in western Idlib

Idlib Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the death of a young man due to the explosion of an old landmine in Ain Al-hamra village in Jisr Al-Shughour countryside in western Idlib.

 

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 426 people, including 71 women and 138 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, who 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.