10 killed in northeast Syrian wildfires: Monitor

At least 10 people have been killed in Kurdish-controlled northeast Syria since Thursday while trying to extinguish mass wildfires that have recently spread across thousands of acres of farmland, a war monitor reported.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said in a statement that it had “documented the death of 9 persons including 5 citizens, a woman, 2 members of Al-Sanadid Arab Forces and a member of the Internal Security Forces (Asayish).”

The SOHR said that those who perished had been trying to extinguish fires in the countryside of Al-Hasakah Province.

On Thursday, a member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which led the fight against the Islamic State in Syria with support of the US-led coalition, also died while assisting in firefighting efforts. The local administration in northeast Syria declared an emergency last week, calling on civilians to assist in the firefighting as well.

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