Clearing 70% of mine contaminated areas in Afghanistan

According to the regional office of Tasnim news agency, the combat service With mines, the United Nations announced that since the start of the “Afghanistan Mine Action Program”, about 14 million explosive munitions have been neutralized and destroyed, and 70% of the mine-contaminated areas in Afghanistan have been cleared.

According to this organization, since 1989, nearly 44,000 Afghan civilians have been killed or injured by landmines and explosive remnants of war, which is an average of 110 people per month.

According to the report, IEDs and explosive remnants of armed conflict caused almost 99 percent of the casualties recorded in 2021.

The report on the impact of explosive ordnance in Afghanistan adds that UNICEF recorded about 700 children killed or maimed by landmines and explosive remnants of war in 2022, almost two children every day.

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