Deir Ezzor | Landmine explodes in car carrying civilians, killing child and injuring two others in western countryside
Deir Ezzor province: SOHR sources have reported that a child was killed and two others sustained serious injuries by the explosion of an old landmine in a car carrying civilians in Ayyash town in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor.
The explosion took place near Ayyash warehouses which is affiliated to Iranian-backed militias on a military supplying line used by the militias.
It is worth noting that war remnants are prevalent over large geographical areas across Syria, amid inaction by authorities and local organisations which have exerted no efforts to remove them.
Accordingly, SOHR has documented the death of 75 civilians, including two women and 25 children, due to explosions of old landmines, unexploded shells and bombs across Syria since early 2023. In addition, over 143 civilians, including 38 children and four women, sustained various injuries.
The casualties are distributed regionally as follows:
- Areas controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and opposition factions in Idlib: Three fatalities; including a child, and five injured civilians, including three children.
- Regime-controlled areas: 67 fatalities, including 19 children and three women, and 119 injured civilians, including 21 children and three women. There are 32 truffle pickers died, including a child and two women, and 82 others injured.
- “Euphrates Shield” area in east Aleppo countryside: One fatality, a child, and eight injured people: a woman and seven children.
- SDF-held areas: Three fatalities; three children, and ten injured civilians, including six children. There is a little truffle picker among the injured people.
- “Peace Spring” area in north Al-Raqqah countryside: A child was killed and another was injured.