Landmine explosion wounds children in Syria’s south Hasakah
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, three children were critically wounded in a landmine explosion in Mount Abdulaziz, northeast Syria.
The blast occurred when the children stepped on a landmine while searching for mushrooms in Hamoud Plain, east Mount Abdulaziz, a medical center official in Mount Abdulaziz Muhammad Osman told North Press.
The three children are 10-year-old Muhammad al-Ahmad, in critical condition after sustaining shrapnel near the heart and critical wounds throughout his body; 7-year-old Ibrahim al-Muhaimid, in stable condition; and 6-year-old Adullrahman al-Muhaimid, who has had his legs amputated, according to Osman.
The three children were transferred to hospitals in the city of Hasakah, the official in the medical center pointed out.
A military source from the Syrian Democratic Forces told North Press that the landmine was an Islamic State (ISIS) remnant of war and they would conduct combing operations in the area to remove the mines.
He pointed out that earlier they dismantled hundreds of mines in the Mount Abdulaziz area.
ISIS controlled the Mount Abdulaziz area for about year and a half before the People’s Protection Units (YPG) expelled them from the area in the summer of 2015.
In late July, the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) found the body of man who lost his life in a landmine explosion in the Mount Abdulaziz area.