A man, identified as Yasser al-Selh, was killed, while his son Ibrahim and a third person, a woman identified as Shamsa al-Mohammad, were critically injured, on March 22, 2024, by the explosion of a landmine of as yet unidentified source while they were searching for desert truffles in the badiya or desert area near Safyan village in southwestern rural Raqqa governorate. The area is under the control of Syrian regime forces.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) is still trying to locate eyewitnesses to obtain more information about the incident.
We call on the controlling forces to uphold their responsibilities for protecting civilians in their areas, to investigate this incident, and to make the investigation’s findings known to the public. Syria will never have true stability without a genuine political transition process towards democracy within a fixed timetable.
