Children are being killed and maimed by discarded explosives in Ethiopia

A child who lost his left hand from an explosive left near his house in the aftermath of a fight between the Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) forces, receives treatment in Dubti Referral Hospital, in Dubti town, Afar region, Ethiopia, February 24, 2022. Picture taken February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

KASAGITA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Fifteen-year-old Eysa Mohammed was collecting water near her home in northern Ethiopia's Afar region when an explosion underfoot tore shrapnel into her leg, making her one of a growing number of children maimed by weapons discarded in the country's civil war.

"So much blood was spilling from my right foot," Eysa told Reuters in her family hut in the town of Kasagita. Doctors removed two large pieces of metal from her leg in February but she can no longer walk.