According to a war monitoring group, explosive remnants of Syria’s war killed around 30 people last month, including more than a dozen children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, “29 individuals, including 12 children, were murdered by explosive remnants in March,” with another 29 injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fresh death toll brings the total number of people killed by explosive remnants to 73 since the beginning of the year, according to the monitor, who relies on a broad network of informants within Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thousands of people have been maimed and hundreds have been killed as a consequence of bombs planted by both sides in Syria’s decade-long conflict in fields, highways, and even buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the United Nations, explosive ordnance has contaminated one out of every three communities in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Syria overtook Afghanistan as the country with the most reported landmine and explosive remnants of war casualties in 2020, according to the Landmine Monitor, with 2,729 people killed or wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Syria in 2021, 241 individuals were killed and 128 were injured by explosive remnants, according to the Observatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since it began in 2011 with a violent attack on anti-government protests, Syria’s civil war is thought to have killed about 500,000 people and displaced millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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