Ammunition explosion in a neighborhood west Idlib kills a citizen

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented today the death of a civilian affected by wounds he had yesterday when ammunition materials and other explosive materials exploded in a house of an explosive material merchant in al-Kastan town west of Idlib.

The Syrian Observatory monitored yesterday the injury of six citizens as a result of an explosion in the middle of a residential neighborhood.

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 262 people including 65 women and 75 children, by mines and IED explosions and the collapse of cracked residential buildings in several areas of the Syrian territory in Homs, Hama, Deir Ezzor, Aleppo and the Syrian South since early January 2019.

Among the total death toll, there are 45 persons, including 30 women and five children, were killed during their search and collection of the truffle which grows in the areas that is subjected to heavy rain, and it is sold at very high prices.