{"id":131168,"date":"2025-10-19T18:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=131168"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:20:50","slug":"landmine-blast-in-syrias-hama-injures-9-including-women-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/131168\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmine blast in Syria\u2019s Hama injures 9 including women, children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HAMA, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> Nine people, including women and children, were injured on Sunday when a landmine left over from the war exploded while they were harvesting peanuts near the village of al-Jibin in the northern countryside of Hama, central Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local sources told North Press that the explosion occurred in a farmland on the outskirts of the village as workers were picking the peanut crop, resulting in multiple injuries of varying severity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ambulance and Civil Defense teams rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to nearby medical points before transferring those in critical condition to hospitals for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medical sources told North Press that seven of the injured, most of them women and children, were transferred to Hama National Hospital due to the seriousness of their wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some others were undergoing emergency surgeries, while two women remained under medical observation at the Suqaylabiyah Hospital west of Hama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Large areas of Hama countryside and other parts of Syria remain contaminated with landmines and unexploded ordnance left by warring parties during more than a decade of conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farmers and children are often the main victims of such explosions, particularly during harvest seasons, as many agricultural lands remain unsafe and unmarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reporting by Nayef al-Bayoush<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Editing by Jwan Shekaki<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAMA, Syria (North Press) \u2013 Nine people, including women and children, were injured on Sunday when a landmine left over from the war exploded while they were harvesting peanuts near the village of al-Jibin in the northern countryside of Hama, central Syria. 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