Two children were killed in an explosive remnant of war in Babelhttps://t.co/8mJ8z9tz2H
— SHAFAQ News (@Shafaqnews) January 28, 2022
Two people were killed on Friday in a kaboom in Babel Governorate, central Iraq.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency, "an explosive remnant of war blew up in Jableh district of Babel, killing two children and wounding their father.
According to a La Belle France-based group Humanity & Inclusion report, Iraq is heavily contaminated by explosive ordnance. Explosive remnants of war claimed about 700 victims between 2018-2020. The fighting has left the borders with Iran, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...littered with landmines and unwent
kaboom!remnants of war,
"Iraq is one of the countries most heavily contaminated by explosive ordnance on earth," the organization said last October.
According to the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
data, Across Iraq, about 100 children were killed or injured between January and September 2021 due to remnants of conflict.