4 children injured by grenade in al-Shaddadi

Hasakah – North-Press Agency

Jindar Abdulqader 

On Thursday morning, four children were injured, one of them in critically, when unknown assailants threw a grenade at them as they played in front of their house in the town of al-Shaddadi, south of Hasakah.

Amira al-Khadr, mother of three of the injured children, said to North-Press: "My three children and their young uncle were playing in front of the house together at nine o'clock in the morning, when unknown people riding a motorcycle threw a grenade at them and fled."

Al-Khadr added that they have no animosity with anyone. 

The children's injuries varied, from shrapnel in the abdomen, head, face, and different parts of the body, while 13-year-old Yasser al-Hamoud al-Khadr,  the uncle of the three other children, was seriously injured. 3-year-old Matar, 4-year-old Nour, and 6-year-old Khadr were also injured.

Muhammad al-Fadel, a doctor at al-Hikmah hospital in the city of Hasakah who supervises the cases of the four children, said that the three brothers are in stable condition, but they need operations and some medical care. Yasser is in a critical condition as he has brain and chest fibrosis.

A security source who preferred not to be named told North Press that the explosion was as a result of unexploded ordinance.