Ethiopia's Tigray truce: 'I lost my leg on the way home from school'

Two years since war ended in northern Ethiopia, discarded weapons are proving deadly and maiming people.

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Berhane Haile was walking home from school earlier this year through the mountainous countryside of Tigray in northern Ethiopia when an almighty blast changed his life forever.

The 16-year-old had just stepped on a piece of ordnance that left the bones and flesh on his left leg smashed, torn and bleeding - he was in agony.

"The explosion threw me away backwards. There was blood everywhere. People heard the sound and came rushing," he told the BBC World Service.

The teenager then had to endure being carried by his distraught father and other villagers on foot for two hours over hilly terrain to Adwa, which is the main town in the area about 162km (100 miles) north on the road from Tigray’s capital, Mekelle – and not far from the Eritrean border.

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