KABUL (Pajhwok): Nearly 500 people suffered casualties in 252 explosions caused by unexploded ordnance in the country last year, when about 35,000 landmines and unexploded ordnance were precisely destroyed, an official said on Monday.
Maulvi Abdul Rahman Zahid, financial and administrative director at the Ministry of Disaster Management, told reporters in Kabul still threats of landmines existed on 1,199 square kilometers of land in the country.
He said the ministry cleared 65 square kilometers of land from landmines in the past year and detected 2002 anti-personnel mines, 625 anti-tank mines, 3109 hand-made mines and nearly . . .
