Afrin IDP killed in mine explosion in Syria’s Aleppo countryside
ALEPPO NORTHREN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, an IDPfrom Afrin was killedin a landmine explosion in Sherawa district, south of Afrin, northwest Syria.
“The 20-year-old Muhammad Ali Hamrasho from Barad village, was immediately killed due to the explosion of a landmine in Kelouteh village while he was breeding sheep,” the media spokesperson for the Kurdish Red Crescent, Roj Gelko, said.
Since the beginning of the displacement of residents from the city of Afrin to the northern countryside of Aleppo, the number of victims due to mine explosions has risen to 90, 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.