Old ordnance | Child killed in an explosion in Idlib countryside

SOHR activists have reported the death of a seven-year-old child today, due to the explosion of unexploded old ordnances from the remnants of an opposition factions’ warehouse, while he was playing near Ma’rait al-Shalf town in Harem district in the northwestern countryside of Idlib.

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 619 people, including 80 women and 223 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.