Landmine deaths surge worldwide amid UN demining funding cut

The United Nations has sounded the alarm as landmine deaths rise amid funding cuts to demining programmes.

International experts meeting in Geneva say the legacy of conflicts old and new continues to kill and maim civilians on a near-daily basis.

The UN Mine Action Programme (UNMAS) said that although mine clearance work in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Sudan is currently reasonably well funded, the situation in Afghanistan and…