Qasreh-Shireen/ Landmine explosion killed a young man

13:49 - 22 March 2015
Kurdpa agency: 26 years after Iran-Iraq war landmine and other ammunition explosion still take people’s life in the Kurdish region in the west part of Iran.

According to Kurdpa news agency as a result of a landmine explosion near by a military base within Kermanshah province border region, 24 years named Jalal Bahramzadeh lost his life. The landmine was exploded in Tangeh-Hamam situated in village Darkhor within Qasreh Shireen region.

During this incident seven livestocks belong to this Kurdish citizen were killed.

Qasreh Shireen governor Socio-Political bureau while confirming the death of this young man told state News agency, IRNA that from the beginning of this year (1393) 19 people have either lost their life or were wounded . This was due to explosion of landmine and other ammunition left over from Iraq-Iran war.

Previously a farmer named Nour Ali Safari while working on his garden was killed due to a landmine explosion.

According to local citizens removing landmine has been reluctantly done by the state institutions and they have removed and cleaned up as far as 30 cm deep down the land.