Child died, two wounded in mine explosion in Syria’s Aleppo
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – Yesterday on Thursday, a child died and two others were wounded in an explosion of a mine of the remnants of war in Sherawa district, south of Afrin, northern Syria.
The mine exploded in the children while they were grazing sheep in the lands west of the village of Ziyara in the Sherawa district.
Roj Gilko, the media spokesman for the Kurdish Red Crescent-Afrin, said that the children Hannan Murad Ahmad, Renas Abdelqader Ahmad, and Youssef Bozan were taken to the city of Aleppo after providing first aid in the hospital in the town of Tel Rifaat, but Hannan lost his life due to his severe injury.
He added that the three children are not yet 15 years old.
On August 26, an IDP young man from Afrin lost his life in a mine explosion in Sherawa district.
The number of the dead and wounded of Afrin IDPs due to the explosion of mines in the northern countryside of Aleppo has reached 96 victims since March 2018, when Turkey and its affiliated armed opposition factions invaded Afrin, according to the Kurdish Red Crescent.
In 2018, the Turkish military with the support of Syrian opposition factions caused the displacement of more than 300,000 people from the Afrin region towards Shahba area in the northern countryside of Aleppo, according to the Human Rights Organization-Afrin.
Others fled to villages in the Sherawa district, south of Afrin, as Turkey did not impose its control over several villages in the district, namely: Soghana, Aqiba, Ziyarah, Abbin, Kelouteh, Mayasa, Zarna’iteh, al-Zouq al-Kabir, Burj al-Qas, Bashamra and Khorebkeh, where the Syrian government forces controlled them after the withdrawal of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) from them.