Walking into trouble: Tribesman loses leg after stepping on landmine

PARACHINAR:

A tribesman was severely injured after stepping on a landmine in Boshera, Upper Kurram Agency on Sunday.

A political administration official said Khalil Khan was on his way to the Kurram River to fish when he stepped on a mine in Dandher, Boshera. After the blast, locals shifted the unconscious tribesman to Sadda Headquarters Hospital in Lower Kurram. Due to extensive damage by shrapnel, doctors had to amputate his left leg.

Civilians are routinely injured and often have to suffer loss of limbs as a result of stepping or driving over such planted explosives.

On October 12, two children were brutally harmed in separate landmine incidents in Upper Kurram Agency. On October 9, two tribesmen lost their legs after stepping on mines in Pewar and Boshera, both areas in Upper Kurram.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 21^st, 2013.