Doctors and medical staff located in hospitals and other facilities across northern Syria have been reporting an increase in patients maimed or injured in blasts from bombs placed in homes and common objects. According to reports, doctors and aid workers said the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were placed in objects such as TVs, refrigerators and teddy bears to kill people who were returning back to their homes after they had fled.
Doctors with Medecins Sans Frontieres, known as MSF, operate six medical facilities in Syria. They say they have treated well over 190 patients who were injured by objects left around homes by fleeing...