News Center- The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) released a statement on X on Sunday about how many people were killed or injured due to explosive remnants of war between April 2023 and April 2024.

 35 people, 26 of them children, were killed or injured due to explosive remnants of war last year, the UNSMIL said. In the last five years, more than 400 people have been injured or killed in explosive ordnance related accidents, the UNSMIL added.

“While Libya has managed to clean up about 36 percent of the hazardous land identified in Libya, about 436 million square meters remain contaminated,” said Fatma Zourrig, Chief of UNSMIL’s Mine Action Section.