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Iraq
Mine explosion kills two in Halabja province
2023-04-12
[Rudaw] Two people were killed in Halabja province’s Tawella town on Tuesday after a mine went kaboom!, according to local officials.

Aso Kawis and Gashtyar Sharif were in Tawella, along the Kurdistan Region's border with Iran, collecting seasonal plants when a mine went kaboom!, according to Biyare district's mayor Hamid Baram.

Kawis died immediately, and Sharif followed shortly after in the hospital after succumbing to the injuries he had sustained.

A police source told Rudaw that the earth-shattering kaboom took place after the two men touched a mortar.

"The two people went to a contaminated area where the signs of hazardous areas are present," the mayor told Rudaw.

The area is known for being contaminated with remnant mines from during the eight-year-long war between Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Iraq which started in 1980. There are tens of millions of unwent kaboom! landmines and explosive ordinances across the Kurdistan Region’s borders with Iran, and the remnants date back to the war.

There are around 3,000 minefields in the Kurdistan Region. Around 2,700 people have been killed by landmines and 10,800 others maimed or maimed since the 1990s, according to the KRG’s Mine Action Agency.

A vast area scattered with landmines needs to be cleared, otherwise it will continue to claim lives and leave civilians with long-term disabilities if not thoroughly cleaned.
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