Lying on his back, a trail of his drying blood scuffed across the dusty concrete floor, the young boy was alive and screaming. As he drew his knees up to his chest I watched his right foot flop and flap from the end of a mangled segment of shattered bone, shredded muscle, and tattered skin. […]
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Tracey Koehlmoos: Road traffic accidents in developing countries – farewell to the colonel
On 11 June 2011, 44 schoolboys died when the truck they were travelling in flipped into a canal in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The boys were from three villages and were riding in an open truck on their way back from a football competition. I was haunted by the image of the devastated village parents, who no doubt […]