DAMASCUS, July 11 (Xinhua) -- A total of six Syrian soldiers were wounded on Saturday by a land mine explosion in the country's northwestern province of Idlib, a war monitor reported.
The land mine ripped through a group of Syrian soldiers in the village of Mardabseh in the southeastern countryside of Idlib amid reports of casualties, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
On July 8, two pro-government fighters were killed in a similar explosion in the eastern countryside of Hama province near Idlib.
Meanwhile, the observatory said the Syrian army shelled rebels' positions in the southern countryside of Idlib after midnight. It added that both the rebels and the Syrian army exchanged fire northwest of Hama on Saturday morning.
Areas in Idlib and Hama provinces are included in a cease-fire agreement brokered by Turkey and Russia in March.
However, activists report daily violations by both sides without airstrikes. Enditem
