Seven children killed in explosion in southern Syria. Deraa was the birthplace of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
Since then, the province has been plagued by killings, clashes and difficult living conditions. Started in 2011, the war in Syria has left more than 507,000 dead, displaced millions of people and plunged the country into a major economic and humanitarian crisis. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) gave a different assessment, reporting “eight children of different ages killed and another injured”