The usage of explosives that prevarication dormant, peculiarly successful populated areas, is “a persistent and increasing menace to children and their families”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said connected Tuesday, expressing heavy sadness implicit the decease of 8 students successful Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
The explosive remnant of warfare that detonated adjacent a schoolhouse connected Monday besides near 4 different children injured who had been attending class. All 12 were boys.
UNICEF’s acting typical successful the country, Alice Akunga, described the incidental arsenic underlining the value of the planetary assemblage providing much enactment for Afghanistan, truthful authorities tin “clear explosive ordnance and remnants of war”.
“Equally important is to amended children and their communities astir the risks and the preventive measures to take”, she added.
UNICEF expressed its deepest sympathies to the families of the victims and those injured.
‘Protect children’
In 2020, globally, explosive ordnance, including remnants of war, were liable for astir 50 per cent of each kid casualties, resulting successful much than 3,900 children killed and maimed, according to UNICEF.
“Schools – and their surrounding areas – indispensable beryllium harmless spaces for each children to larn and thrive”, reminded Ms. Akunga.
“UNICEF urges each acrophobic parties successful Afghanistan to instrumentality factual measures to wide areas contaminated by weapons, support children and support them retired of harm’s mode astatine each times”.
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