LONDON: Two young men were killed on Tuesday when a landmine exploded as they rode a motorcycle near Al-Nasiriyah Air Base in the countryside northeast of Damascus, the Syrian state media reported.
The victims were from the nearby town of Jayrud, the Syrian Arab News Agency said.
Mohammad Anwar Saleh Nasser, director of Jayrud’s Emergency and Disaster Management Center, said rescue crews were dispatched immediately after reports of the explosion.
The teams recovered the bodies and took them to Jayrud National Hospital, he told SANA.
The incident was the latest in a series of deaths and injuries attributed to mines and other explosive remnants of Syria’s civil war, which began in March 2011.
