Nearly 30 individuals have been killed by Syria’s explosive remains

According to a war monitoring group, explosive remnants of Syria’s war killed around 30 people last month, including more than a dozen children.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, “29 individuals, including 12 children, were murdered by explosive remnants in March,” with another 29 injured.

The fresh death toll brings the total number of people killed by explosive remnants to 73 since the beginning of the year, according to the monitor, who relies on a broad network of informants within Syria.

Thousands of people have been maimed and hundreds have been killed as a consequence of bombs planted by both sides in Syria’s decade-long conflict in fields, highways, and even buildings.

According to the United Nations, explosive ordnance has contaminated one out of every three communities in the country.

Syria overtook Afghanistan as the country with the most reported landmine and explosive remnants of war casualties in 2020, according to the Landmine Monitor, with 2,729 people killed or wounded.

In Syria in 2021, 241 individuals were killed and 128 were injured by explosive remnants, according to the Observatory.

Since it began in 2011 with a violent attack on anti-government protests, Syria’s civil war is thought to have killed about 500,000 people and displaced millions.