Accidental gunfire | Child killed with gunshot fired from his father’s weapon in southern Idlib

Idlib province: SOHR sources have reported that an eight-year-old boy was killed, while he was playing with his father’s gun in the HTS-held town of Ihsim in the southern countryside of Idlib, where a gunshot fired by mistake and hit the boy.

 

This coincides with the proliferation of arms among civilians in all zones of influence throughout Syria.

 

Since early 2023, SOHR has documented 27 incidents of security disorder in areas controlled by HTS and opposition factions in Idlib city and surrounding villages; these incidents left 30 people dead; they are as follows:

 

• 19 civilians, including two women and three children.

 

• Two HTS members.

 

• Eight unidentified people.

 

• An Uzbek-born migrant.