Clearing about 800,000 unexploded mines during the last 35 years in Afghanistan

According to the regional office of Tasnim news agency, the coordinating office The United Nations Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) announced: Since 1988, humanitarian organizations have succeeded in clearing about 792,000 mines in the last 35 years in Afghanistan.

According to the statistics announced by Ucha on the social network “X”, the demining teams of humanitarian organizations in Afghanistan during the last 35 years have succeeded in removing more than 13 million explosive remnants, 764 thousand pieces of anti-personnel mines and 33 thousand 460 pieces of landmines. in this country.

UN Mine Action Service also admitted in a report: since 1989, about 56 thousand and 923 civilians in Afghanistan They have been killed or injured due to the explosion of various mines and remnants of explosives from wars. This figure is an average of 110 victims per month.

The International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations had previously warned that hundreds of people are still victims of explosive devices in Afghanistan every year. unexploded and become mines.

In the past few decades, during the civil and guerilla wars, thousands of mines were planted in different regions of Afghanistan and a large amount of these unexploded explosives were found in Different areas of this country remain.

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