Two people killed in landmine explosion in Syria’s Aleppo countryside

ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, an uncle and his nephew lost their lives in a mine explosion left by the Turkish-backed opposition factions in the village of Abyan, south of Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo.

According to local sources from the village, Khalil Bahri Hamada (35) and his nephew, Bahri Muhammad Hamada (8), came from the Abyan village in Sherawa district, lost their lives while razing their sheep near the village of Jalbra which is held by Turkey and opposition factions.

More than twenty sheep, owned by Khalil Bahri, were also killed in the explosion.

On March 17, A displaced person with his two children from Afrin were injured as a result of the explosion of a landmine left behind by ISIS in the village of Babans in the northern countryside of Aleppo.

In a similar incident, the 4-year-old child Muhammad Jubeir was injured in the village of Qol Suruj in the northern countryside of Aleppo, when he was playing in farmland on last January 4.

Reporting by Nariman Hesso