66 Syrians killed, 75 wounded due to explosive remnants of war

DAMASCUS, Dec. 25 (YPA) – A Syrian young man was killed, and six others, including a child, were injured on Wednesday, due to landmines and explosive remnants of war scattered across vast areas of Syria.

This raises the death toll from the explosive remnants of war in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime on December 8 to 66 martyrs and 75 wounded.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a young man died in the explosion of a landmine of war remnants in Al-Hamidiya area southern of Idlib.

Moreover, a girl was severely injured in Uwaija Town in western Aleppo countryside.

Meanwhile, two young men were injured by shrapnel of an explosion of a landmine of war remnants near Khalkhala Airport northern of Al-Suwaydaa and she was taken to the National Hospital to receive proper medication.

In areas of the “National Army”, two young men were injured in explosion of objects of war remnants in Tadif City eastern of Aleppo.

Since the announcement of the toppling of the regime president, Bashar Al-Assad, on December 8, the Syrian Observatory has documented the death of 66 civilians, including 50 men, ten children and five women, and the injury of 75 others, including 41 children and four women, by explosions of old ordnance in different provinces across Syria.

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