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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Okba Mohamad

Landmines in Syria kill hundreds of civilians returning home after fall of Assad

A UN mine-sweeping truck
Mining experts have said it could take decades to remove landmines, unexploded shells and munitions scattered across Syria. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

More than 200 people, including women and children, have been killed in Syria in incidents involving war remnants in the three months since the fall of the Assad regime, as bomb disposal experts warn that “no area in Syria is safe”.

The number of casualties has risen as approximately 1.2 million people return to their former homes and lands after being displaced by the country’s brutal civil war.

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