800 people died due to the explosion of explosives in Afghanistan
| The Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations announced that last year, around 800 people lost their lives due to the explosion of explosives. |
According to the regional office of Tasnim news agency, “Jean Pierre Lacroix, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, emphasized his support for efforts to find a sustainable solution to clean up unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan and said that last year about 800 people died due to the explosion of mines and explosives in Afghanistan.
Jean-Pierre Lacroix wrote in “X”: I just returned from Afghanistan, where I witnessed the terrible impact of explosives on communities.
He also pointed out that most of the victims of the explosion of mines and explosives in Afghanistan last year were children, and there are still hundreds of thousands of tons of different types of unexploded war remnants in Afghanistan.
The Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations arrived in Kabul on Wednesday, May 26, in a peace operation with the aim of raising awareness about the dangers of unexploded ordnance during the war.
Thousands of people in Afghanistan are victims of mines and explosives every year
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