Five people including three children drowned on Friday in separate incidents in northwestern Syria, bringing the number of drownings in the same region to 25 since the beginning of this year. These took place near the city of Afrin in the Aleppo governorate, close to the Turkish border. A civil defense volunteer told The New Arab’s sister site, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, that rescue teams retrieved the bodies of two brothers who drowned as they were playing near the Kamrouk waterfalls. A third child died swimming in the Maydanki lake. As more were rescued, the volunteer said Friday’s death toll was t…