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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Qubad Wali and Pascale Trouillaud

Mines, Unexploded Ordnance A Daily Menace For Afghanistan's Children

Children gather around a crater after Afghan deminers from the Halo Trust detonated an anti-tank mine in Ghazni province (Credit: AFP)

The black mushroom cloud had barely faded in Ghazni province before kids clustered around the edge of the crater created by the mine, one of the devices that kills a child every other day in Afghanistan.

Afghans have been able to return to fields, schools and roads since the Taliban authorities ended their insurgency and ousted the Western-backed government in 2021.

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