Mined battery charger burst killing, wounding family in Syria’s Aleppo countryside

AZAZ, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, a civilian killed and his family members were wounded in a mined battery charger explosion on their way back to home in the city of Azaz, north Aleppo.

The man who was killed, was an IDP from Tal Rifaat town, north Aleppo, and his wife and son were wounded while he was operating a mined battery charger that he found thrown on the road, an exclusive source told North Press.

The Turkish forces and the Turkish-backed armed opposition groups have been running the city of Azaz since July of 2012.

On Monday, the body of the Sultan Murad Division’s leader Nayif al-Homsi was found inside his house in the city of Azaz.  

Areas northwest Syria are witnessing detentions and kidnapping accompanied by successive explosions amid the armed opposition’s inability to stabilize security there.

Reporting by Farouq Hamo