Old ordnance | Child killed in landmine explosion in Homs, raising number of casualties in 72 hours to five children

Homs province: SOHR activists have documented the death of a 14 year-old child due to the explosion of an old landmine planted earlier by ISIS in al-Furqols region in east Homs countryside.

 

Accordingly, the number of people killed in landmine explosion in Homs province in the past 72 hours has risen to five, all were children.

 

less than 72 hours ago, SOHR sources documented, the death of two children and injury of two others in the explosion of an old landmine, in al-Jam’iyat al-Sakaniyah area (Residential Associations) in Palmyra city in the eastern countryside of Homs.

 

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 634 people, including 82 women and 229 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.