Landmine blast in Syria’s Hama injures 9 including women, children
HAMA, Syria (North Press) – Nine people, including women and children, were injured on Sunday when a landmine left over from the war exploded while they were harvesting peanuts near the village of al-Jibin in the northern countryside of Hama, central Syria.
Local sources told North Press that the explosion occurred in a farmland on the outskirts of the village as workers were picking the peanut crop, resulting in multiple injuries of varying severity.
Ambulance and Civil Defense teams rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to nearby medical points before transferring those in critical condition to hospitals for treatment.
Medical sources told North Press that seven of the injured, most of them women and children, were transferred to Hama National Hospital due to the seriousness of their wounds.
Some others were undergoing emergency surgeries, while two women remained under medical observation at the Suqaylabiyah Hospital west of Hama.
Large areas of Hama countryside and other parts of Syria remain contaminated with landmines and unexploded ordnance left by warring parties during more than a decade of conflict.
Farmers and children are often the main victims of such explosions, particularly during harvest seasons, as many agricultural lands remain unsafe and unmarked.