More ISIS mines raise the civilians death toll to 34 people in Raqqa city during the past two weeks

Landmines continue to kill the people of Al-Raqqah city after expelling the “Islamic State” organization, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented on Thursday the death of 2 persons as a result of mine explosions in the city, raising to 34 civilians including at least 7 children and citizen women, the number of those who were killed as a result of explosion of mines inside the city during their movement, or during their attempts to return to their homes in the last 2 weeks in the city, where the sweep operations are still taking place by the demining teams of the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published in late October 2017 that the demining teams of the Syria Democratic Forces and teams of the International Coalition and western parties have stopped their work in the city temporary, following the injury of foreign members of the mine engineering teams and the death of other members as a result of mine explosions, the sources told the observatory that they stop mine sweeping and dismantling in order to search for a different method to remove them, in a way that does not inflict casualties in their ranks in Al-Raqqah city, where Al-Raqqah city is witnessing a destruction of more than 80% of its area, which witnessed battles and violent clashes between the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition against the “Islamic State” organization, and lasted from the 6th of June 2017 until the 17th of October 2017, the date of the exit of the last batch of members of the “Islamic State” organization from the city, also the organization had intensively planted miners in the city and its outskirt.

Source: SHR