Old ordnance | Child and woman among four people killed and injured in landmine explosions in Hama and Deir Ezzor

SOHR sources have reported an explosion in a civilian house in Al-Keshkiyyah town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor in SDF-held areas, caused by the explosion of an old landmine. The explosion killed a child and injured his relative.

 

Meanwhile, a man and a woman were killed in the explosion of an old landmine in the motorcycle they were riding in Wadi Al-Azeeb area in the eastern countryside of Salamiyyah in Hama province.

 

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 497 people, including 77 women and 154 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 119 persons, including 47 women and six 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.