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Kurdistan ranked highest landmine region
out of all Iraq's regions
4.6.2007 |
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June
4, 2007
Duhok, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- Kurdistan
comes first out of all Iraq's regions with the
highest number of landmines, the Iraqi Kurdistan
anti-landmine authority – Dahuk Branch said on
Sunday.
"Authority staff managed to remove 1,532
anti-personnel landmines, 47 anti-armor landmines
and 1,074 cluster and fissile bombs in a year," Eng.
Uwainan Youssef said.
"The area cleared of landmines this year reached
321,519 square meters, in addition to 12,978 square
meters cleared using sweepers," he said, adding that
3,251,154 square meters have been examined by bomb
squads.
Youssef said 53 villages benefited from the
authority's work, noting that landmines were removed
from a large area covering 10 fields where oil
pipelines are laid.
"We have not scanned for any internationally banned
unexploded bombs but we have detonated several
phosphoric bombs, which are highly dangerous, in the
area of Bishapour near the Iraqi-Syrian-Turkish
border triangle," said the Iraqi explosives expert.
VOI
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