According to local authorities, the incident occurred on agricultural land planted with pistachios northeast of the city of Soran, in the north of Hama province, about 230 kilometers north of this capital.
The Ministry of the Interior reported, through its Telegram channel, that immediately after the explosion that caused a crater 12 meters in diameter, police patrols and ambulances went to the scene and evacuated what remained of the bodies of the deceased children. and the injured were taken to the provincial hospital.
Dozens of people die every year from the explosion of mines that the radicals planted in houses, roads and agricultural land before withdrawing from the areas they occupied before the advance of the Syrian army.
According to data from the Syrian Red Crescent, the number of dead and maimed by mine explosions between 2018 and 2022 reached 5,070.
The Syrian delegate to the United Nations organizations in Geneva revealed that the Army managed to dismantle more than 180 thousand mines and other explosive devices, however, he denounced that the foreign occupation and the presence of groups of this type in some regions block access and demining work.
According to the most recent data from the UN Mine Action Department in Syria, from 2015 to 2022 about 15 thousand people were killed or injured by mines, that is, five per day.
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