A total of 10,453 civilian casualties - 3,438 people killed and 7,015 injured - were documented in the 2017 Annual Report released on Thursday by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office, a statement from the UNAMA said.
Although this figure represented a decrease of nine per cent compared with 2016, the report highlighted the high number of casualties caused by suicide bombings and other attacks using improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the statement said.
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