Old ordnance | Landmine explosion kills and injures two civilians in Lebanese Hezbollah-held areas in Homs

Homs province: SOHR activists have documented the death of a 20 year-old man and injury of another, due to the explosion of an old landmine while they were shepherding near Aabel village in the south western countryside of Homs, which is under control of the Lebanese Hezbollah militias and members of the regime’s 4th Division.

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 663 people, including 95 women and 239 children, by mines and IED explosions and the collapse of cracked residential buildings in several areas of the Syrian territory in different areas across Syria since early January 2019.

Among the total death toll, there are 112 persons, including 47 women and 19 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.

SOHR calls on all the relevant international organisations to work on the immediate neutralising and removal of unexploded war ordnance in Syrian. Explosive remnants of war (ERW) are a serious problem that need to be addressed urgently.
SOHR would like to see, as a first step, the immediate involvement of international organisation in raising the awareness of local Syrians of the dangers of ERW.