In a ward full of amputees, six-year-old Gatwech Kornyut is the youngest victim of newly-laid landmines that are turning South Sudan's Unity state into a no-go zone, as the blasts or fear of them cripple residents and trade.
Cradling the little boy smiling brightly and fiddling with car-print pyjamas rolled up above the stump of his left leg, Gatwech's mother Mary Nagak says she brought him from the north when Sudan split in July.
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