Mines, unexploded ordnance a daily menace for Afghanistan's children
Decades of war have left Afghanistan littered with landmines and other munitions, with the remnants of conflict killing a child in the country every other day.
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00:15 >> It's a bit fine now.
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00:36 >> Fire!
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02:01 >> The biggest cause of injury is from playing
02:04 and that's playing with things that people find lying
02:07 around on the ground which happen
02:08 to be explosive remnants of war.
02:10 The reason that's happening is because there has been
02:12 so much fighting in this country so there's a lot
02:14 of things lying around for people to pick
02:16 up that they shouldn't pick up.
02:17 The other cause is collecting metal for scrap
02:20 and that's driven by poverty.
02:21 People need money and therefore they'll go to great risk
02:24 to pick things up in order to make some money.
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