Land Mines Aren't Killing As Many People As They Used To
Land mine casualties, perhaps the most brutal and indiscriminate residuals of wars past, fell 25 percent in 2013, marking the lowest number of recorded injuries and deaths by buried explosives since a global disarmament group began tracking these numbers in 1999. Seventy-nine percent of the 3,308 casualties recorded last year were civilians, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), which released its annual report Wednesday. Nearly half were children.
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