Yemen: Children tormented by landmines and unexploded ordnance


Unexploded remnants of Yemen’s conflicts have killed and injured dozens of children and threaten the country’s fragile return to peace.

Thirteen-year-old Nakhlah Ramadhan was tending sheep with her younger sister Fatima on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, when she stepped on a landmine. She was killed instantly; Fatima was seriously injured.

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Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)