Old ordnance | Child injured by the explosion of unexploded object in east Deir Ezzor countryside

Deir Ezzor province: A six-year-old boy was injured by the explosion of an unexploded object, while playing with it with his brothers on a farmland next to his house in Al-Abd village in Muhassan district in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which is controlled by regime forces and Iranian-backed militias.

It is worth noting that war remnants are prevalent over large geographical areas across Syria, amid inaction by authorities and local organisations which have exerted no efforts to remove them.

Accordingly, SOHR has documented the death of 101 civilians, including 21 women and 31 children, due to explosions of old landmines, unexploded shells and bombs across Syria since early 2024. In addition, 113 civilians, including 13 women and 51 children, sustained various injuries.

The casualties are distributed regionally as follows:

• Regime-controlled areas: 84 fatalities, including 21 women and 17 children, and 80 injured civilians, including 12 women and 30 children. Among this toll, 49 truffle pickers, including a child and 19 women, were killed and 28 others, including nine women, were injured.

• SDF-held areas: 15 fatalities, including 13 children, and 25 injured civilians, including a woman and 21 children.

• HTS-held areas: One fatality, a child, and four injured children.

• Areas where Kurdish and regime forces are deployed: A young man was injured.

• “Euphrates Shield” area: A civilian was killed.

Among the total death toll, the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 68 civilians, including 12 children and 19 women, and the injury of 54 others, including ten women and 23 children, due to the explosions of landmines planted previously by ISIS, all in regime-controlled areas.