Damascus countryside - Sana
Bassem al-Rifai, head of a rosary for excavation at the General Establishment of Geology, escaped a certain death due to the explosion of a mines remnants of the ISIS terrorists in a car he was traveling with and three of his colleagues to their work in Abu al-Shamat area east of Al-Dameer city in Damascus northeastern countryside.
But Bassem, who was wounded with two other colleagues with shrapnel and bruises in the limbs, face and chest, lost his colleague Fadi Hamadeh as a result of serious injury, the father of a family displaced from the Qaboun neighborhood in Damascus.
“We are a group of workers from several governorates working in Abu al-Shamat area in Al-Dameer area while digging and excavating cement quarries while driving by car,” said Bassem, a graduate of an oil institute from a bed at Assad University Hospital. We went on a side road and a mine planted by terrorists exploded before the army liberated the area. The vehicle overturned and hit several pieces of shrapnel, but my colleague Fadi, who was sitting next to me, was killed instantly while being treated with two others to the hospital. ”
Bassem and his colleagues are a group of many victims of booby-trapped bombs in houses, streets, buildings, farms and fields of farmers in several areas of Damascus countryside before being liberated by the Syrian Arab Army. Many people were injured while working, living and children while playing in the Eastern and Western Ghouta areas.
Last July, three women were killed when a landmine exploded in a car they were returning from work at a farm in Mleiha. Three children on the outskirts of Jobar neighborhood east of Damascus were killed by a landmine.These incidents have been repeated in other towns for more than a year since the army liberated Ghouta in April 2018. .
To counter the threat of terrorists from explosive devices, mines, explosives and ammunition, the Engineering Department of the Army has begun to formulate a plan of action through the formation of a team of engineering elements that began its field work to clean up towns and farms, remove and secure booby-traps and enable people to practice their normal work. Residents of the area have announced the timing and media announcement to avoid any risks from the bombings. A survey of more than 20 towns has been completed so far after the disposal of tons of explosive devices, mines and ammunition.
During the preparations to blow up seven tons of terrorist remnants of stuffed bombs and empty ammunition in play farms around Douma, which has for years been under the control of terrorist organizations, Brigadier General Mayas Issa, the leader of engineering insurance groups, said: We have divided it into sectors where we survey and clean engineering buildings, streets, farms and tunnels, but the ground is beyond our control and then we collect the remnants of terrorists and detonated a place far from residential places and after informing the residents of the exact timing of the date of the bombing and Take precaution and safety measures before they are destroyed. ”
"Since the liberation of Ghouta, we have been able to survey 24 villages and towns and blow up 163 tons so far. These towns are living a normal life and there has been no bombing and work is ongoing until the entire Ghouta is cleared."
Brigadier Issa points to the cooperation of the people by informing the engineering elements about the western objects by saying: "There is awareness among civilians and in most towns we have seen their cooperation and inform the engineering elements of any suspicious object."
Lieutenant Mohamed Diop, an engineering specialist who extends the circuit of explosions and a network of tapes and put a quantity of explosive material in a large hole that contained a pile of mines and booby-traps. Explosives of different types and sizes .. Explosive devices, mines, missiles, cylindrical containers of Kazanat and cylinders of domestic gas, which weighs from 10 to 20 kg planted by terrorists in homes, schools, public squares, roads and tunnels.
The order of the bombing is given a loud bang followed by columns of dust with fragments of booby-trapped car bombs falling over long distances. Calm returns to the area. Marwan Marjani, one of the farmers of Douma, sigh near his place. Land and picking crops We find explosive devices and ammunition .. We tell the elements of engineering immediately .. They come and take them to a remote place .. God protect them.
My martyr is amazing
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