{"id":23100,"date":"2026-10-03T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/03\/unexploded-ordnance-eastern-afghanistan-64-civilians-killed-injured\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T11:00:15","slug":"unexploded-ordnance-eastern-afghanistan-64-civilians-killed-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/03\/unexploded-ordnance-eastern-afghanistan-64-civilians-killed-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexploded Ordnance in Eastern Afghanistan Kills or Injures 64 Civilians, UN Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unexploded ordnance and other remnants of war in eastern Afghanistan have killed or injured 64 civilians in 64 incidents, according to Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The incidents have been recorded since the start of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a news briefing, Dujarric said Afghanistan remains one of the countries with the highest number of casualties from unexploded ordnance. He added that these materials pose a serious threat, especially to children.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN secretary-general&#8217;s spokesman, the organisation and its partners are working to raise awareness of the dangers of explosive materials, clear contaminated areas and assist affected communities; however, a severe shortage of funding has affected these efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN says unexploded ordnance in eastern Afghanistan has killed or injured 64 civilians this year, with children especially at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}