A deadly legacy: Syrians and the increasing threat from discarded landmines

Syria ranks first in terms of the number of landmine victims, according to the latest statistics

 Nine-year-old Misbah shies away from playing football with his peers in the small open area in the middle of his working-class neighbourhood, located on the outskirts of Damascus.

The child, whose family was displaced from their home in the suburbs of Homs years ago, can only look on wistfully as his neighbourhood friends

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-war-landmines-children-limbs-b1967053.html

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