Old ordnance | Landmine explosion kills child in northern Deir Ezzor

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the killing of a child under the age of eighteen from Al-Maryir’iyyah village due to the explosion of an old landmine, while he was shepherding sheep in the regime-controlled village of Mazlum in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

 

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 292 people including 65 women and 83 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.