LONDON: Two members of the Syrian army engineering unit were injured on Tuesday when an anti-personnel mine detonated during a clearance operation in Latakia countryside, near the Mediterranean.
Engineering units were removing mines and unexploded ordnance from agricultural land and forested areas in the village of Nahshaba, located in the Jabal Al-Akrad region, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
The operation is part of a nationwide effort to secure areas affected by the country’s civil war, which lasted from 2011 to 2024, and to allow residents to return to their villages. Mines and unexploded ordnance left by the former Bashar Assad regime continue to pose a significant hazard to civilians in various parts of the Syrian Arab Republic, the SANA added.
Last week, two members of the Syrian Internal Security Forces were killed, and three were injured by a landmine in Al-Sanamayn, a city in the Daraa province of southern Syria.
