The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Land mine | A civilian killed in explosion while grazing cattle southeast Idlib

 

On June 21, 2021

SOHR activists have reported death of a civilian from al-Hamadanyah village in Idlib countryside in explosion of land mine of the Syrian war ordinance in al-Khouin area in southeast Idlib while he was grazing his cattle.
On June 19, SOHR activists documented the death of a man in the explosion of an old landmine in the eastern countryside of Salamiya in Hama countryside, near the “oil pipeline”.
Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 537 people, including 77 women and 172 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 126 persons, including 47 women and six children, who 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.