Article 71ZA7 There’s a ‘worrying rise’ in deaths from landmines

There’s a ‘worrying rise’ in deaths from landmines

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editors@theworld.org (Shirin Jaafari)
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A new report by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines raises concerns about a sharp rise in the number of people killed or injured by landmines. The majority of the casualties are civilians, it said. This comes at a time when five European countries are walking away from a decades-old treaty that banned the production and use of landmines. A development that has activists worried. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.

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