Landmine explosion injures 8 in Sulaimani Unexploded ordance litters certain areas of countryside in the Kurdistan Region, resulting in injuries and deaths every year. Many of the explosive remnants are relics of the Iran-Iraq War during the 1980s. News
Landmine kills one, injures another in Erbil, sixth similar fatality since last month The pair were brothers and had gone to the mountainous region to collect spring herbs, marking the sixth similar fatality in the course of the past month. News
Suspected remnant of Iraq-Iran war kills man in Erbil in third such incident this month A landmine in the border town of Sidakan in Erbil province killed a man on Tuesday, the third person to die from an incident involving unexploded ordnance in the Kurdistan Region in the past month. News
Suspected remnant of Iraq-Iran war kills man in Erbil’s mountainous region Mohammed Hassan Hamad, 55, had gone to the highlands of Warte town, Rawanduz district to bring home spring herbs. News