Four Children Killed by Abandoned Explosives in Syria

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Four Children Killed by Abandoned Explosives in Syria
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Sep 6
2022
Four children were killed Monday when explosives left inside an abandoned apartment went off in a rebel-held town in northern Syria, an opposition war monitor and a paramedic group said.

The opposition's Syrian Civil Defense, also known as White Helmets, said two brothers were killed instantly by the blasts in the town of Binnish, and their bodies were taken to a nearby morgue.

Mohammed Ali Basha, a Syrian Civil Defense volunteer, said their two sisters also succumbed later to their injuries.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that four siblings were killed, adding that the building where the explosives went off had been used for years by families displaced by Syria's 11-year civil war.

The Observatory, which documents Syria's conflict, said 176 people, including 10 women and 91 children, have been killed by unexploded ordnance throughout Syria this year.

The conflict that began in March 2011 has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced half of Syria's pre-war population of 23 million.

Over the past few years, Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces have gained control of much of the country with the help of his main backers, Russia and Iran.

Binnish is in the last remaining rebel stronghold in northwestern Syria.