Old ordnance | Explosion kills and injures four people on agricultural land in farms of Khan Sheikhoun city in south-eastern rural Idlib

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the death of one person and the injury of three others, as a landmine left over from the war exploded in a group of workers picking pistachio in the farms of the regime-controlled city of Khan Sheikhoun in south-eastern countryside of Idlib.

An increasing number of people killed recently by a landmine, unexploded bombs, and collapse of war-damaged residential buildings in various Syrian areas and cities such as Homs, Hama Deir Ezzor, Aleppo, and southern Syria.

The Syrian Observatory has documented since January 2019 to date some 434 fatalities, including 71 women and 143 children. Of the total number, the Syrian Observatory documented the deaths of 47 people, including 30 women and five children, in their search and collect for “Syrian wild truffles”, which put their lives at risk, “Syrian wild truffles” grow in areas that are exposed to heavy rains and are sold at high prices.