Child injured in landmine explosion in Syria’s Aleppo countryside
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A child was seriously injured on Tuesday in a landmine explosion from the remnants of the war in the village of Qol Suruj, east of Marea in the northern countryside of Aleppo, north Syria.
“The 4-year-old child Jubeir Muhammad was seriously injured by a landmine explosion while playing in a farmland adjacent to his house. He was transported to Avrin Hospital in Fafin district in Shahba area, and from there to Aleppo University Hospital,” North Press reported local sources.
“The child had vascular and nerve damage, in addition to a bad fracture leg,” a doctor in Avrin Hospital told North Press.
“He was moved to Aleppo Hospital because there are no neurosurgeons and vascular doctors in Avrin Hospital,” the doctor added.
War remnants in areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo, where IDPs of Afrin are scattered, pose a threat on people’s lives, as failure to dismantle them, although Syrian government forces have been running the areas for years, causes permanent wounds and claims lives of others.