After about two weeks of killing and injuring 220 people at least, a booby trapped vehicle explosion kills 26 displaced people including 19 children and women and injures tens more near a al-Jafra oilfield
A violent explosion shook the area near al-Jafra oilfield which is controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces, and the Syrian Observatory for human rights learned from several intersected sources that the explosion was caused by a detonating a booby trapped vehicle by the “Islamic State” organization at a gathering point of displaced people, which caused tens of casualties and injuries among the citizens who are displaced from villages on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, and the Syrian Observatory learned that at least 26 people including 12 children and 7 women were killed, and tens of others were wounded with varying degrees of severity, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, and because there are still missing people as a result of this explosion, also the explosion killed a fighter of the Syria Democratic Forces and wounded others, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Saturday the 12th of October that the number of casualties of whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights until now, has increased to 75 persons at least including tens of children and citizen women, while more than 140 persons were injured with varying degrees of severity, as a result of detonating a booby trapped vehicle by the “Islamic State” organization, that targeted a gathering and a column of the displaced people, in the area between the field of Al-Azba and Koniko gas field, in the east of the Euphrates River, and two members at least of the Syria Democratic Forces were killed in the explosion, and 4 others were injured with varying degrees of severity, and the death toll may increase due to the presence of tens of injuries in critical cases.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the explosion which carried out on the road that is known as Al-Tojjar Road, and which foodstuffs and vegetables pass through, to the controlled areas of the organization, which resulted in closing the road, the matter which resulted in the increase of the prices of the foodstuffs to triple in the controlled areas of the organization, on the eastern and the western banks of the Euphrates River.
It is noteworthy that a similar detonation was carried out on the 12 of October 2017, and it also targeted a gathering of the displaced people and the Syrian Observatory published then that 18 people at least were killed, they were civilian displaced people from Deir Ezzor province and members of the Internal Kurdish Security Forces “Asayish”, they were killed when a member of the “Islamic State” organization detonated himself in a gathering of displaced people in Abu Fas area south of Al-Hasakah province at the administrative borders of Deir Ezzor province, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; the detonation was carried out by detonating a booby trapped truck carried furniture in a gathering of trucks in the area, in which the explosion caused other explosions that rocked the area one of them was of an explosion of a fuel truck, and it does not known until now if there was another suicidal detonation, and the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of a large number of injuries, some of them have seriously wounded, the activists of the Syrian Observatory in the area also monitored resentment among the displaced people who escaped from the bombardment and the ongoing clashes in Deir Ezzor as a result of the long wait in the area and preventing them by the SDF to enter immediately to the camps, it is noteworthy that tens of displaced people were lost due to hurrying and heading to the desert as a result of the suicidal explosion, amid fears of being targeted by the International Coalition warplanes believing that they are members of the “Islamic State” organization.