Three children injured in war remnant explosion in Hama

By Saad al-Yaziji

HAMA, Syria (North Press) – Three children were injured on Sunday after a war remnant exploded while they were playing in a town in the countryside of Hama, central Syria.

Local sources from Hama told North Press that the incident occurred in the town of Kafr Nabudah, north of the city, when the children accidentally triggered a projectile left over from previous fighting.

The children sustained varying degrees of injuries and were taken for medical treatment. No further details on their condition were immediately available.

Every month, dozens of people across Syria, most of them children, are injured or killed in similar incidents due to the widespread presence of unexploded ordnance and remnants of war in towns and rural areas.

According to a 2020 report by the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), an average of nine children per month were verified as killed or injured by explosive ordnance between March 2011 and December 2019. The report also noted that boys accounted for 80% of child victims, with the highest casualty rates among boys aged 12 to 15 and girls aged 6 to 11.

In a more recent report from March 2025, Save the Children highlighted that at least 188 children in Syria had been killed or injured by landmines and explosive remnants of war in the past three months, averaging nearly two children per day.

It is worth noting that in northeast Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), together with local mine action teams and international partners, continue to conduct clearance operations to reduce the threat of unexploded ordnance to civilians.