ISIS remnant of war claims life of kid in Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Friday, a child lost his life in an explosion of a landmine left by the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) in a town east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
Hamid al-Hajjan, brother of the child, said, “A landmine left by ISIS exploded while my 11-year-old brother Ali al-Hajjan was playing near it in a deserted house in al-Sayyal neighborhood west of the city of Abu Kamal, killing him immediately.”
Al-Hajjan, who hails from Abu Kamal on Syrian-Iraqi border, added that the mine was an iron body and did not look like an IED or a mine.
The Syrian Desert covers nearly half of the area of Syria, and is distributed over the governorates of Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Rif Dimashq, Suwayda and Palmyra.
Iranian-backed militias and the government forces control large areas of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which constitutes a source of concern as it witnesses intensive operations by the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) sleeper cells.
On July 15, a man lost his life and three others were injured in a landmine blast left by ISIS in a town east of Deir ez-Zor.