The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

In few hours | Ten Syrian civilians injured in landmine explosions in several Syrian areas

SOHR activists have reported the injury of a man and his wife in an explosion of an old landmine in al-Quhailia region northern of Suran in the northern Hama countryside which is under the control of regime forces. The blast happened while they were picking olives in the area.

The number of Syrian civilians injured on Sunday due to the explosion of old landmines and war remnants in Dara, Hama, Aleppo and Idlib provinces in different areas of control raised to ten including five children and two women.

The deaths are part of the ongoing human casualties due to unexploded landmines of old ordnance in most Syrian lands.

Few hours ago, SOHR activists reported the injury of at least one child in explosion of Syrian war ordnance in the outskirts of al-Sanmin city in the northern Daraa countryside.

SOHR activists documented earlier the injury of four children, some seriously, due to the explosion of an old landmine in the Kurdish-held village of Tel Sawsan in the northern countryside of Aleppo. The injured children were taken to Afrin Hospital in Fafin district.

Observatory activists had reported the explosion of an old landmine on the outskirts of Kansafra town in the southern countryside of Aleppo, which injured two civilians, one seriously.

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 608 people, including 80 women and 216 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.