Old ordnance explosions | Landmine goes off in Khan Shaykhun, killing two young people

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of two young men due to the explosion of an old landmine, while they were working in their farmland in the regime-controlled city of Khan Shaykhun in the southern countryside of Idlib.

 

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 293 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.