War ordnance casualties | Nine children and man killed across Syria since early September

War ordnance, such as old landmines and unexploded ordinances, which are everywhere in Syria, continues to pose a threat to the safety and lives of innocent Syrians.

In just five days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has documented the death of ten civilians, including nine children, and the injury of two people, including a child in the explosion of old landmines and unexploded ordinances across Syria.

Here are further details of the casualties of old ordnance since early September:

• September 1: A 13-year-old boy was seriously injured, causing his legs to be amputated, by the explosion of an old land mine in the vicinity of the central prison in northern Aleppo countryside.

• September 2: Two children were killed in the explosion of an old landmine in Al-Ruwaydah village in Sinjar district, which is controlled by regime forces, east of Idlib province.

• September 2: A civilian was killed, and his brother was injured, due to the explosion of an old landmine on agricultural land in the vicinity of Inkhil town.

• September 4: Three children of one family were killed by the explosion of an old landmine, near a military position of the regime forces, in Al-Daba’a village in Al-Qusayr countryside, south of Homs.

• September 5: Four sibling children were killed in Benesh city in Idlib countryside, due to the explosion of unexploded ordnance in an uninhabited flat where the victims live in the same residential building.

Since early 2022, SOHR has documented the death of 176 civilians, including ten women and 91 children, due to explosions of old landmines, unexploded shells, bombs, and the collapse of war-damaged buildings across Syria.