Landmine explosion kills and injures civilians in Syria’s Idlib
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – While harvesting the fig crop on Tuesday, a person and a child were killed and another child from the same family was injured in a landmine explosion or remnants of war in south of Idlib, northwest Syria.
“A landmine left behind from the war exploded among family members (father, child and brother) while they were harvesting the fig crop near the town,” a resident of al-Bara town in Zawiya Mountain told North Press.
“The explosion resulted in the killing of Hussein al-Obeido and his brother Sarhan al-Obeido, 12, and the injury of his 10-year-old son,” the source added.
The family had been displaced from the city of Kafranbel in the southern countryside of Idlib, and they worked in the fig harvest.
The unexploded remnants of war in the southern countryside of Idlib, and the mines planted during the battles in the Zawiya Mountain area early last year, have killed and injured dozens of civilians.
More than a hundred Syrians were killed in the explosion of the remnants of war between the beginning of this year and last April, according to statistics of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
On August 28, a displaced person from the northern countryside of Hama was injured, while harvesting fig, by the explosion of a landmine of the remnants of the war, south of Idlib.
On August 23, a landmine of the remnants of war exploded in the Zawiya Mountain area, south of Idlib, killing an elderly farmer and wounding another.