The number of people killed or injured by landmines across the world reached a 10-year high last year, driven by a spike in improvised devices planted by militant groups like the Islamic State, researchers said on Tuesday.
Casualties caused by landmines, victim-activated explosive devices and unexploded weapons left behind after war totalled 6,461 in 2015, a 75 percent increase on the previous year, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).
More than three quarters of victims were civilians, 38 percent of them children, the Nobel-prize-winning lobby group said in its annual report.
An overwhelming majority of casualties were recorded in just …read more
Source: Democratic Voice of Burma
