ISIS remnant of war claims life of individual in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Friday, an individual lost his life and three others were injured in a landmine blast left by the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) in a town east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
Nabil al-Kheder, brother of a victim, who hails from the city of Abu Kamal on Syrian-Iraqi border, said that his 35-year-old brother Amjad lost his life and three others were injured in the landmine blast left by ISIS.
“The mine was a steel body that was placed in an abandoned house, belonging to al-Kheder’s family. It exploded when the young men tried to remove it in order to clean the house,” he told North Press.
The injured were transferred to sayyeda Ayisha Hospital to be referred latter to a hospital in Damascus Governorate due to their critical injuries, a doctor in the hospital was cited as saying.
The Iranian-backed militias and the Syrian government forces have been running vast swaths of the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor and Syria’s Badia since the expulsion of ISIS in 2017.
On June 5, a child lost his arms as a result of explosion of an ISIS remnant in the town of Shaafah east of Deir ez-Zor.