VOA News | April 5, 2018: A group that monitors landmines says more than 25,000 people have been killed or injured in landmine accidents in Afghanistan since 1978. An Afghan expert on unexploded ordinances told VOA he has made it his life’s mission to defuse the devices before they maim and kill. But as VOA’s Azizullah
VOA News / March 17, 2018: Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and land mines kill and injure thousands of Afghans every year in Afghanistan. One of its victims is 12-year-old Noorzya, a resident of eastern Nangarhar province, who stepped on an IED and lost her legs. It has not been determined who planted the mine that exploded
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 15, 2018 The HALO Trust demining group says it has cleared Afghanistan’s Herat Province of landmines as part of a 10-year project funded by the British government. The organization said on February 15 that its Afghan staff had cleared more than 600 minefields in the western province, an effort it said has
Tolo News: Report: “At least 100 people lose their lives in mines and unexploded ordnance explosions every month in Afghanistan.” Afghanistan’s people are world’s second worst-hit victims of landmines and unexploded ordinance after the people of Yemen, a report by the organization Landmines Monitor has shown. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 12, 2017 Four children were killed when they played with a mortar in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz province, police said on April 11. Seven other children were wounded, said police spokesman Mafuz Akbari. The explosion took place in Qasaban village of Chahardarah district on April 10. Chahardarah is a Taliban stronghold
Reuters: It’s been decades since the Russians laid millions of landmines in Afghanistan, and the explosives are still taking lives. Now funding to clear the mines is shrinking, and a rising Taliban insurgency is complicating things. Reuters Correspondent Josh Smith says the victims of all this are mostly children. Click here to watch video (external
AFP: Former refugees Massoud and Mahmud Hassani stunned the world three years ago with an invention like a dandelion puffball that sought to rid the world of landmines. Now the Afghan brothers are back with their latest creation: a low-cost drone to detect and destroy mines, which each year claim thousands of lives. Click here to read
KABUL, April 26 (Xinhua) — The Afghan National Army personnel had found and defused 26 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and landmines in two southern provinces, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. “The army bomb disposal teams discovered and defused 26 IEDs and landmines in Shorabak and Shah Wali Kot districts of Kandahar province and Nawbahar
Ozy: I’m standing in a minefield on the side of a mountain in Afghanistan. In a few moments, a land mine will explode. The mine goes off. A controlled detonation. On the side of a mountain, in a remote part of Afghanistan, a team from MACCA is sweeping and digging for land mines. The Taliban frequently
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 2, 2016 Afghan officials say 11 mine clearers have been kidnapped by gunmen in the west of the country. Police in Herat Province said on April 2 that all 11 were Afghans employed by the HALO Trust mine-clearing organization and that they had been abducted on April 1. A military operation has been