The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Old ordnance | Landmine explosion kills child and injures another, while shepherding sheep in Deir Ezzor desert

SOHR sources have reported a landmine explosion in sheepherders in Al-Hawaij desert in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which killed a child and injured another young man from Al-Bokamal city.

 

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 505 people, including 77 women and 157 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 122 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.