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Article: 10-YEAR-OLD QWADRAT TAKES HIS FINAL PAINFUL BREATH.. This is the third mine death of the day..and it's only 11:45am ..THE LATEST TRAGIC VICTIM OF THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2002
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Byline: ANTON ANTONOWICZ in Kabul
THE boy Qwadrat died in front of us. No sounds, no last-minute exhalation of air. Just goose-pimples on his legs giving final, pathetic acknowledgment of the cold life leaving him.
The doctors look into each others' eyes,with darting, defeated glances. Dr Nazir Ahmad releases his fingers from the pulse of what remains of Qwadrat's left arm. Automatically, they take a step away from the 10-year-old boy.
Qwadrat was killed by a mine. He, his mother Basgul and his six-year-old sister Saloba were walking from their ...