Lucknow, Sep 11 - At least two million children die every year on account of violence in the world, while nearly 40 million suffer disabilities, an orthopaedic surgeon said at an event organised by the Unicef here Friday.

Bhasker Banerji, an orthopeadic surgeon and director of Allahabad-based Viklang Kendra, said that around 520,000 people die each year as a result of interpersonal violence alone, of which 40 percent are children.

Banerji, who has devoted 30 years towards rehabilitating people suffering from physical disabilities, was delivering a talk on 'Disability: Protection and Prevention' organised jointly by Unicef and Media Nest, a social activist group engaged in studying problems of children.

'More than 3,000 people die on the world's roads every day,' he pointed out while adding that 'tens of millions of people are injured or disabled every year'.

He said: 'children, pedestrians, cyclists and the elderly are among the most vulnerable of road users. Every day more than 2,000 children die from an injury which could have been prevented.