By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, April 11, 2023
Two children were killed when the unexploded device from the past war exploded in the eastern province of Ghazni, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, local sources said.
On Monday afternoon, a group of children found the explosive device in the eastern province of Afghanistan, Ghazni, Nahoor district; while playing with the device, it exploded and killed two of the children, according to local sources.
On Sunday, a similar incident occurred in Kandahar province, which killed one child and injured one other.
Last week, two children were also killed due to the explosion of an unexploded device in the Sayedabad district of Wardak province of Afghanistan.
In various regions of the country, the prevalence of unexploded bombs from previous conflicts has recently surged, killing and injuring men, women, and even children.
Since last November, international organizations such as Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the United States, the UK, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs have contributed to support demining in the nation (OCHA).
Nonetheless, due to the detonation of unexploded bombs left over from the forty years of civil war, Afghanistan is still allegedly one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world, killing dozens of people every month, including children.
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