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Civilian toll from explosives rising
The highest numbers of Civilian casualties in 2015 were recorded in Syria, Yemen and Iraq, followed by Nigeria and Afghanistan, the UK-based Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) said in a report. Seventy-six percent of the almost 43,800 people killed or injured by explosives such as bombs, mortars and improvised explosive devices (IED) last year were civilians, spread across 64 countries and territories, the report said. “More states should speak publicly against the use of such ******* and hopefully we will end up stigmatising it just as land mines, cluster munitions and poison gases have been stigmatised,” Iain Overton, AOAV director of investigations, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview. The organisation called on all nations to end the use of such explosives in populated areas. Civilian casualties from explosives last year were 2 percent higher than in 2014 and up 54 percent from 2011, the AOAV said. أكثر... 
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