NEWS CENTER- The floods that swept through several areas of Syria last week caused the deaths of many people, including children, while the explosion of a cluster bomb in the Hama countryside led to the killing of one child and the inury of others.

A six-year-old child died, and three others aged between 4 and 5 were injured, one of them in critical condition, yesterday, Friday, 30 October, due to the explosionof a cluster bomb in the city of Al-Latmna in the northern Hama countryside in Syria.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management announced the death of 7 citizens who drowned, including 5 children, while civil defense teams were able to rescue 60 civilians after torrents besieged their vehicles. Four people are still missing, and intensive search operations are underway to find them.

Evacuation operations were carried out for two schools containing more than 350 students, in addition to coordinating the evacuation of 375 families from camps in Raqqa, and responding to 7 camps in the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib, alongside extensive operations to pump and drain accumulated water from residential neighborhoods, homes , and public facilities, covering about 250 homes and public facilities, including two hospitals, schools, and bakeries.

Most Syrian areas have witnessed since the afternoon of Tuesday, 27 October, heavy rains, especially the northern and eastern areas, which led to the formation of torrents and floods and the cutting of many roads.