Old ordnance | Landmine explosion kills young man killed in Maarrat Al-Nu’man countryside

Idlib Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: A young civilian from Maar Shahour in Idlib countryside was killed in a landmine explosion, while he was harvesting olive in farmlands in the regime-controlled village of Um Jalal in the eastern countryside of Marrat Al-Nu’man in southern Idlib.

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 385 people, including 71 women and 118 children, by mines and IED explosions and the collapse of cracked residential buildings in several areas of the Syrian territory in Homs, Hama, Deir Ezzor, Aleppo and the Syrian South since early January 2019.

Among the total death toll, there are 45 persons, including 30 women and five children, who were killed during their search and collection of the truffle which grows in the areas that is subjected to heavy rain, and it is sold at very high prices.