KABUL — The overall Afghan civilian causalities hit a record high in 2015 as about 11,000 non-combatants were killed and injured in conflict-related violence last year, a UN mission here said in its yearly report released on Sunday.

“The most important finding in the report is that 11,002 Afghan civilians have died or injured in 2015, this figure surpasses by 4 percent the same figure for 2014,” UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Nicholas Haysom told a joint press briefing.

“We call on those inflicting this pain on the people of Afghanistan to take concrete action to protect civilians and put a stop on the killing and maiming of civilians in 2016,” Haysom, also head of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) noted. (Xinhua)…[+]