Kabul, July 1 (IANS) As many as 50 people are killed or injured each month in Afghanistan due to unexploded ordnance left behind after decades of conflict, with children being nearly 80 per cent of the victims, local media reported on Wednesday citing the United Nations (UN) data. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) urged that people of Afghanistan should be able to live safely without the threat posed by unexploded ordnance left behind after war, Afghan…
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Kabul, June 30 (IANS) The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority announced late Monday the signing of a joint cooperation agreement with a leading mine clearance organisation aimed at tackling the persistent threat of landmines and unexploded ordnance. Under the deal, the demining organisation will clear around 1.88 million square meters of heavily contaminated land across multiple districts in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar, and Nuristan, according to a statement issued b…
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 …
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 17 (IANS) Two people were killed after an unexploded shell detonated inside a residential house in western Afghanistan’s Farah province, according to a statement released by the provincial police office on Tuesday. The incident took place in Pusht-e-Koh district when an unexploded munition reportedly exploded after being struck inside the home. Both victims died at the scene, the statement said, Xinhua News Agency reported.Officials have called on residents to exercise extreme caution…