Failure of organizations to remove war remnants | Explosive shell claims life of child in northern Idlib countryside

Idlib province: SOHR activists have reported that a child displaced from Abo Al-Zohor city in eastern Idlib countryside was killed due to the explosion of a shell of war remnants, while he was searching from remnants of potato seeds in the lands of Zardana town in northern Idlib countryside.

War remnants are still claiming the lives of civilians in different areas of Syria, amid inability of local authorities to remove them, in addition to the absence of the role of humanitarian organizations in spreading awareness to warn of the dangers of exploded and unexploded war remnants.

Accordingly, SOHR has documented the death of 216 civilians, including ten women and 108 children, due to explosions of old landmines, unexploded shells and bombs across Syria in 2022. In addition, 318 civilians, including 20 women and 190 children, sustained various injuries in the same period.
Among the total death toll, a man, and his son were killed in the collapse of a war-damaged building in Darya city in Rif Dimashq, four civilians were killed in the collapse of another building in Jubar neighbourhood and a child was killed in the collapse of a house in Adawan in Idlib countryside.