Article 6VZGV Landmines in Syria kill hundreds of civilians returning home after fall of Assad

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

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Children particularly vulnerable to unexploded war remnants scattered throughout country as more than a million people return

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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