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| Casualties From Unexploded Ordnance Increased Recently: DMAC |
| 2022-10-24 |
| [ToloNews] The Directorate of Mine Action Coordination (DMAC) said that the civilian casualties due to explosive ordnance have increased in recent months. According to the DMAC, more than 500 people have been killed or maimed in these incidents over the last year. Most recently, on Friday two children were killed and two others were maimed in a blast that occurred in Zazai Aryoub district of Paktia province. Shafiq, one of those maimed in the incident, has been transferred to Emergency hospital in Kabul. "He received injuries in three parts of his body. One of the children has been hit with a fragment in his head. His eye has been stitched. My own son has been hit with a fragment that broke his bone," Shafiq’s father said. "My brother told me in the ambulance that they hit the unwent kaboom!ordnance with a stone and then it detonated. When the blast happened, two people were killed and two others were maimed," said Sayed Rahman, a brother of one of the two maimed. The DMAC said that at least 556 people—most of them children—have been either killed or maimed in these incidents. "We have had some incidents in the past two months-- in September and October. 9 people were killed and 15 others were maimed in 11 incidents in various provinces," said Noruddin Rustamkhail, head of the DMAC. Rustamkhail expressed concerns that they haven’t receive any foreign aid to operate their mission in the country. "Currently, around 6 km needing to be demined. The foreign donors unfortunately have not paid attention to this problem. To demine these areas, there is a need for foreign aid," he said. The DMAC said that more than 86 km land has been demined from unwent kaboom!ordnance within the last year. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 quit bombing shit and it will decline |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-10-24 00:03 |