BALADI NEWS
Three children are dead after they became trapped beneath landfill in a tragic accident in Idlib countryside.
White Helmets teams rushed to the al-Habta landfill in Ma'arrat Misrin city after the incident occurred on Monday (January 6).
The rescue teams frantically dug through tonnes of debris in a bid to free them.
The three children were trapped a few meters deep and it took four hours for crews to reach them, but they were dead.
Civil defense teams recovered the three dead bodies of the children where piles of garbage fell on them from the top as a result of a collapse in the landfill.
Five children mostly have been scavenging on the rubbish dump when it collapsed on them. After which three children were suspended under the garbage and two went out to inform their families, who in turn reported the accident to the Civil Defense teams.
These children should be in school, but like thousands of other children in the war-torn Syrian province of Idlib, they were forced to work every day to support their family.
Source: Orient Net.