Explosion injures several people in Idlib countryside, and woman killed in booby-trapped electric device in Aleppo countryside

SOHR activists say that a woman has died by her previous injuries sustained in an electric device explosion in a house in Azaz city in northern Aleppo countryside. The explosion killed her husband and injured her family.

Meanwhile, six civilians of the same family, including two women and two children, were injured today in a cluster bomb explosion left over from the war, in Ain Al-Hamra area in western Idlib countryside.

On February 22, SOHR sources said that a displaced person from Tel Rifa’at city was killed and his wife and son were seriously injured, as a booby-trapped electrical device exploded at their home in Azaz city in Aleppo countryside, while plugging in the device.

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 438 fatalities, including 72 women and 144 children. Of the total number, the Syrian Observatory documented the deaths of 47 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.