Heavy rains and flash floods are bringing an old danger back to the surface across Iraq: landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) long buried under soil that many communities had come to treat as “safe.”
From southern Kirkuk and the outskirts of Tuz Khurmatu’s Amerli district in Saladin to the Iraqi-Iranian border belt in Wasit, residents and officials say torrents have shifted terrain, stripped away topsoil, and exposed explosive remnants linked both to the Iran-Iraq War and to battles against ISIS.
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Source: Shafaq News
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