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Use of pressure plate IEDs intolerable: UNAMA

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KABUL (UNAMA) on Sunday condemned two improvised explosive device (IED) detonations that killed 19 civilians in Helmand and Badghis provinces.

Both devices used victim-activated pressure plate triggers that are both illegal and indiscriminate, the mission said in a statement.

In the first incident on September 29, a family returning from lunch in their private vehicle struck a pressure-plate IED emplaced in a culvert in Shoaer Langar area of Qadis district in Badghis province.

The detonation killed all 10 members of the family . . .

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