Kabul, June 3 (IANS) A teenager was seriously injured after an unexploded device left over from the past wars went off in eastern Afghanistan’s Ghazni province on Tuesday, said a statement of the provincial police office on Wednesday. The gruesome incident occurred in Gilan district when the ill-fated boy found a toy-like object and began playing with it, but the device exploded, the statement added, Xinhua News Agency reported. Afghanistan has been regarded as one of the most mine-contaminated …
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Kabul, May 6 (IANS) One person was killed and three others injured in a blast involving unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan’s Parwan province, local media reported on Wednesday citing a Taliban police statement. The incident took place in Bagram district on Tuesday when a 20-year-old man tried to open a piece of unexploded ammunition, local Taliban authorities said in a statement. The man died in the blast while two girls and a boy were injured and taken to a hospital in Parwan, where they are un…
Kabul, Feb 3 (IANS) Afghanistan has been ranked third globally for casualties caused by landmines and unexploded war remnants, according to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), local media reported on Tuesday. On Tuesday, UNAMA stated that nearly 80 per cent of the victims are children, who get often injured or killed while playing or unknowingly touching an unexploded ordnance. The UNAMA demanded increased financial support for demining organisations working to clear mines and awar…