Twoinfants, one of them a baby girl, were killed and another young child wounded on August 30, 2022, by the explosion of a landmine planted by an unidentified party in a village in Hasaka’s northwestern suburbs.
Ayda al Zozo, born in 2021, and Abdul Raouf Ahmad, an infant boy born in 2018, died, while a third child was injured when the landmine exploded while they were playingwith it in Al Nasseriya village adjacent to Ras al Ein city in Hasaka governorate’s northwestern suburbs, an area controlled by the Syrian National Army.
SNHR is still trying to reach witnesses to the incident to obtain more details.
We demand that the controlling forces assume full responsibility for protecting civilians in the areas under their control, and that they determine the locations of all mines planted in these areas and safely remove them. We have documented hundreds of deaths and injuries as a result of mine explosions, which will continue to constitute a severe threat to the population of these areas in years to come, especially to children.
