The explosion of more landmines leaves human losses in Al-Raqqah city and Idlib countryside

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: a landmine exploded in Wadi Al-Deif Camp controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in Maarrat Al-Nu’man countryside in Idlib countryside, which injured fighters of Tahrir Al-Sham.

Al-Raqqah Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of a man as a result of a landmine explosion in Al-Raqqah city, to raise the number of who died due to landmine explosions inside the city during traveling in it or while they were trying to return to their homes, to 36 citizens including 7 children and citizen women at least, since about 20 days in the city where sweeping is continuing by mine removing teams of the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition, in which The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published in late October 2017 that the demining teams of the Syria Democratic Forces and teams of the International Coalition and western parties have stopped their work in the city temporary, following the injury of foreign members of the mine engineering teams and the death of other members as a result of mine explosions, the sources told the observatory that they stop mine sweeping and dismantling in order to search for a different method to remove them, in a way that does not inflict casualties in their ranks in Al-Raqqah city, where Al-Raqqah city is witnessing a destruction of more than 80% of its area, which witnessed battles and violent clashes between the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition against the “Islamic State” organization, and lasted from the 6th of June 2017 until the 17th of October 2017, the date of the exit of the last batch of members of the “Islamic State” organization from the city, also the organization had intensively planted miners in the city and its outskirts.