The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The photographer Andrew Quilty, photographed by Mangal, one of the seven children aged between 5 and 12 from the Mirza Gul family who had at least one leg amputated after an accident with an unexploded Rocket Propelled Grenade one of them found, during a school class conducted by a teacher, Lutfur Rahman, who was provided to the family by a small charity organisation called Enable Children. Rahman comes for a few hours each morning of the week. The children's father Hamish Gul had originally moved his family from nearby Khogyani District sometime around 2010 because he was concerned the strong Taliban presence there would prevent his children from being able to have a proper education. Now, he says, despite his family's circumstances, he is trying to encourage education because without "they are nothing." The class was being conducted in the neighbour's house because their house was having construction work done to it. The accident happened when one of the children found an the unexploded RPG in a field near their home in the village of Saed Tuba in the district of Surkh Rod in Nangarhar Province on April 29, 2018. It had been discarded after fighting between the Taliban and the Afghan National Army (ANA) the night before. One of the children took it home, where it exploded after being dropped outside the house's front gate. As well as the seven children who required single or double leg amputations, four others from the family were killed in the explosion. The children that survived are all now at home after spending varying lengths of time being operated on and recovering in Nangarhar Regional Hospital in Jalalabad City. In the week or two preceding this day, after sufficient time had passed for their injuries to heal, the children were all provided with crutches and/or wheelchairs (which they call bicycles) by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), who operate an orthopaedic centre in Jalalabad. In the week prior to this day, the family said there had been fighting very close to their house on four occasions. When they heard the sound of RPGs, Hamisha Gul, the patriarch of the family said, the children were all terrified, crawling from their wheelchairs to get to him. the day before this photo was taken, 200 metres from the house, Hamisha Gul showed this photographer yet another unexploded RPG, identical to the one that maimed his family, which had been left behind after one such battle between Taliban and ANA soldiers. While Hamisha Gul had called a government mine disposal authority, the piece of unexploded ordnance was still where it had fallen days afterward. In the weeks to follow, the children will undergo preparations for being fitted with prosthetic legs at ICRC. Taken at 08:22:59
The seven children aged between 5 and 12 from the Mirza Gul family who had at least one leg amputated after an accident with an unexploded Rocket Propelled Grenade one of them found, sit for a group p
Seven children aged between 5 and 12 from the Mirza Gul family who had at least one leg amputated after an accident with an unexploded Rocket Propelled Grenade one of them found, during a school class
Abdul Rashid (approx. 9), one of the seven children aged between 5 and 12 from the Mirza Gul family who had at least one leg amputated (Rashid lost two) after an accident with an unexploded Rocket Pro
Abdul Rashid (approx. 9), one of the seven children aged between 5 and 12 from the Mirza Gul family who had at least one leg amputated (Rashid lost two) after an accident with an unexploded Rocket Pro
At the home of the Mirza Gul family in the village of Saed Tuba in the district of Surkh Rod in Nangarhar Province, where seven children aged between 5 and 12 from the extended family living in the ho
The seven amputee children from the Mirza Gul family attended their group appointment at the International Committee for the Red Cross' (ICRC) orthopaedic centre in Jalalabad City, the capital of Nang
