Ocha: 60 people are killed or injured every month due to mine explosions in Afghanistan

according to the report of the regional officeTasnim news agency, The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid of the United Nations (OCHA) considered Afghanistan to be one of the most contaminated countries with mines and unexploded explosive devices and acknowledged that 60 people are killed and injured every month due to mine explosions in this country.

According to the latest OCHA report, two thirds of the 401 areas in Afghanistan are contaminated with explosive equipment and ammunition that have not been neutralized; Also, about three million people live within a kilometer radius of mines, improvised explosive devices and remnants of explosives left over from the war. Nations adds: The provinces of Uruzgan, Kunduz, Helmand, Kandahar, Kunar, Badghis, Faryab, Nangarhar, Ghazni, Farah, Maidan Wardak and Samangan are heavily affected by mines and explosives left before and after the 2001 war.

Ocha stated that many infrastructures, including schools, are contaminated with unexploded ordnance.

The report acknowledged: families dependent on agriculture-based livelihoods, including farmers, shepherds and herders, are more at risk from explosive materials, but the necessary and sufficient resources to prevent the dangers of this explosion There are no landmines and

Currently, combating mine hazards is severely underfunded.

According to the office, in the past two years, the budget for demining has been cut in half, which has led to a 40 percent reduction in the demining workforce, and the number of demining personnel from 15,000 to 3,000. It has arrived.

Returning populations are also vulnerable because they are not aware of the areas they are returning to.

The OCHA report states that as the poverty level in Afghanistan deepens, more children and adults are driven to collect spent artillery shells and mortars to collect metal for a living, with consequences. They face a sad situation.