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This photograph taken on December 19, 2025 shows Ali Hossain, who lost his leg to a landmine while collecting firewood, as he walks home at the Bangladesh-Myanmar frontier village of Naikhongchhari in Bandarban district. [AFP]
In the dense hill forests along Bangladesh's border with war-torn Myanmar, villagers are losing limbs to landmines, casualties of a conflict not of their making.
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