According to a press release from the Ministry of Social Action, Family and Women Promotion, due to the concern with the data, a meeting will be held, Friday, in Luanda, with warehouse owners agents and metal dealers and students of the urban district of Mulenvos, to reinforce awareness actions on the danger of mines.
With this meeting, the note underlines, the Ministry of Social Action, Family and Women Promotion intends to alert and discourage the sale and purchase of metals by store owners and resellers, especially children.
Many of the accidents involving unexploded ordnance are mainly victims of minors, who find a means of subsistence in the sale of ferrous material.
Last October, the explosion of a mill killed two children and wounded another, near a military unit, located in the municipality of Cacuaco, Luanda province, while in another accident, which occurred in December 2019, 13 people were injured, also in Luanda, due to the explosion of a mill.
Angola has freed, in the last five years, 90 percent of the areas suspected of being mined, but continues to be included in the list of the ten most contaminated states in the world, the result of more than three decades of war.
