Syria: Residents Returning to Raqqa Face Booby Traps and Landmines

Field newsSyria: Residents Returning to Raqqa Face Booby Traps and LandminesNovember 30, 2017Six weeks after Raqqa wasretaken from the  so-called Islamic State, former residents of the Syrian city and its surrounding areas are returning to find their homes in ruins and their streets and fields littered with the dangerous remnants of war, including booby traps, landmines, ammunition, and rockets. From November 19 to 28, 49 patients with blast injuries arrived at the M édecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) clinic in a neighborhood in eastern Raqqa.
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