The remains of four incendiary devices were found at the scene along with four unexploded devices. |
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Other tasks included identifying and isolating minefields and unexploded ordnance that ringed the base. |
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It was a deadly junkyard full of unexploded ordnances and mines, destroyed aircraft, hangars and gutted buildings. |
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There was traffic disruption after bomb disposal experts were called out to remove an unexploded mortar shell found dumped in a ditch. |
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The road itself is pockmarked with shell holes, while unexploded missiles and bombs stick up from the dirt of surrounding fields. |
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The work of clearing and disposing of the mines, shells and unexploded bombs around Kabul Airport never ends. |
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Problems included lack of aid, degraded water systems and unexploded bombs. |
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The same application could be useful for disposing of unexploded bombs and landmines. |
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Here in Britain, the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal teams are still dealing with unexploded bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe. |
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Extensive ground battles also left a staggering amount of unexploded artillery and mortar shells, mines, rockets, grenades and other devices. |
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Workmen digging up a front garden got a fright when they discovered an unexploded Second World War bomb. |
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The area is littered with unexploded bombs used in target practice by the RAF during the Second World War. |
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Why was Frank Mace sitting astride an unexploded mine, and how did it come to be washed up on a New Plymouth beach? |
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He spoke wistfully of the war when his father was able to run out between air raids and plunder unexploded bombs. |
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In November he and his crew helped a fishing vessel deal with an unexploded bomb. |
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The minehunters had been in the area clearing unexploded weapons, including mines, from the approaches to the port. |
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Compared with landmines, unexploded ordnance is not only more visible, but also easier and cheaper to remove. |
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By this time next year all debris and unexploded bombs will have been removed from the river. |
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According to Oxfam there are some 50 to 100 victims of landmines and unexploded ordnance every week. |
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The U.S. military left firing ranges in the Panama Canal Zone littered with thousands of unexploded rounds. |
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In their civilian jobs, they work for a contractor clearing weapons ranges of unexploded munitions. |
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An army bomb squad was scrambled to dispose of an unexploded mortar shell found poking out of a rabbit hole. |
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Others were walking in their fields and accidentally stepped on an unexploded bomblet from a cluster bomb. |
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We are calling on the British Government to commit to clearing up unexploded ordnance, including the cluster bomblets that have been left behind. |
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Army bomb squad experts rushed to Cranfield on Monday after workmen unearthed an unexploded mortar. |
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Dated 13 May, it shows unexploded munitions covering large populated areas of Iraq. |
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Poverty drives people to search for scrap metal, and instead they find unexploded ordnance. |
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An unexploded bomb from the Second World War was uncovered by a gardener as he fixed a pensioner's fence. |
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There are an estimated 1,000 square miles of the country which are still littered with mines or unexploded bombs. |
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A couple of unexploded mortars are also found and dealt with before the convoy swings for home, moving with extreme caution. |
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There are an estimated 110 million unexploded landmines in war zones in 64 countries around the globe. |
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Whenever a contractor digs into Berlin at a building site, he may dig up an unexploded bomb, exhume corpses, or liberate the fear trapped in a buried air raid shelter. |
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As a result, every cluster bomb leaves some unexploded ordnance. |
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They had at least two more hours in the air with an unexploded bomb. |
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There are unexploded fragmentation bombs everywhere in the fields. |
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It now appears, however, that, while on patrol, he had stepped on an unexploded fragmentation grenade dropped by US forces in the area the day before. |
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The detonation of an unexploded bomb discovered along with the German skeletons sends its fragments across the town, causing damage that is more symbolic than physical. |
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From the very first day of summer vacation, the B-Bomb sits ticking like an unexploded land mine, just waiting to go off. |
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It is a ready source of food, and children often dig for them in fields that could hide unexploded ordnance. |
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After all, unexploded bombs and shells continue to injure many people long after the end of an armed conflict. |
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Concerned that there might be unexploded ordnance on the premises, the following day WFP declared the warehouse off-limits to its personnel. |
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Children who had survived cluster bombs, napalm and nerve gas were today at risk from landmines and unexploded ordinance. |
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At present, those who had survived cluster bombs, napalm and nerve gas were being killed by landmines and unexploded ordnance. |
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I wish to emphasize the danger that unexploded ordnance represents and the harm that has been caused by such materiel. |
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Some have seen their houses destroyed or pillaged and are wary of the dangers of the landmines and unexploded ordnance littering the capital. |
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They then proceed to blow the living bejesus out of themselves by returning to the blue paper of unexploded fireworks when they should still be retiring. |
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Since then, Médecins Sans Frontières has opened a clinic where doctors have treated gunshot wounds and children injured by unexploded ordnance. |
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One-third of the country is still contaminated by unexploded American ordnance. |
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How many must die before we get medical supplies into hospitals and clean up the unexploded ordnance? |
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Of grave concern, however, is the presence of unexploded ordnance and landmines, especially in the north. |
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This is due to the fact that 37 per cent of the whole country's territory remains contaminated by unexploded ordnance. |
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Most deminers have a healthy respect for all unexploded ordnance, but especially for those with sensitive fuzes. |
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Ammunition used for disposing of unexploded EOD under self-sustainment is included in consumables and is not reimbursable separately. |
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One area where Canada is making a significant contribution is in the efforts to clear the country of mines and unexploded ordnances. |
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Do measured concentrations of volatiles or unexploded ordnances represent an explosion hazard? |
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Cluster bombs, mines, unexploded ordnances and other dangerous devices must be located, removed and destroyed. |
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Even if the bombers don't directly target civilians, the unexploded bomblets stay on the ground as land mines, and pose a continuing threat to civilians. |
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The risks associated with unexploded photoflash bombs are serious burns and blindness due to photoflash powder. |
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Two feet away from me an unexploded M-42 submunition peeks out from the rocky soil. |
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The incident occurred in January 2008, when Bakhit, 7, was playing with his friends and happened upon an unexploded landmine. |
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They were killed as the sappers tried to defuse unexploded ordnance in Beit Lahiya. |
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Walking into a coffee shop with a newborn baby is like walking into a retirement home with an unexploded second world war bomb. |
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Piketty has, more accurately, placed an unexploded bomb within mainstream, classical economics. |
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Two unexploded IEDs were found at the scene, according to a security official. |
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All governments responsible for using them must urgently provide assistance to clear unexploded munitions. |
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The fields of France are thought to contain more than 300,000 unexploded shells and mines. |
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These unexploded bomblets are small, often difficult to spot and highly volatile. |
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This is due to the wide-area effect of cluster munitions and the large number of sub-munitions they leave unexploded. |
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Anti-personnel mines must be cleared worldwide, but items of abandoned and unexploded ordnance also have to be dealt with. |
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Environmental costs related to the removal of unexploded ordnance on one decommissioned base to be transferred to a third party are not included. |
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A WWII re-enactor is brought into the hospital when a homemade bazooka backfires and leaves an unexploded grenade in his abdomen. |
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The area is still littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance. |
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The surrounding area was littered with unexploded ammunition. |
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Up to 200 members of the Masai and Samburu communities are seeking compensation for the deaths of as many as 50 people killed by unexploded munitions. |
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On March 12, police found two unexploded bombs in a wooded area near Pine Street and Tower Hill Drive. |
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The US military found an unexploded bomb outside another church nearby. |
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French developers building homes or roads on land which was once the scene of fierce fighting have to check the ground for unexploded bombs and gas shells. |
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There are still some unexploded bombs to be found among the wreckage. |
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When we were told by the police that an unexploded bomb had been found, they said there was no real panic but advised us to keep the children away from the houses. |
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A two-man recompression chamber was provided, as was a protective suit which would be worn by a sailor called to inspect and destroy unexploded ordnance. |
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The goal of making Afghanistan free of mines and unexploded ordnance takes on greater significance, considering an average of 60 Afghans are killed or injured by mines every month. |
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These cluster munitions not only fail to differentiate between civilian and military targets, they often maim and kill civilians long after they have been deployed since many remain unexploded. |
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Not only is a cluster munition contaminated area likely to contain more unexploded ordnance over a space that is less easy to define than a minefield, but actual clearance of the remnants will also be more difficult. |
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On 12 March 2008, an unexploded Second World War Luftwaffe bomb was discovered in Coventry's city centre. |
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Since 1979 landmines, shells, bombs, and other unexploded ordnance have been left behind. |
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A number of unexploded bombs were discovered in the Kilvey Hill area and were later made safe. |
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Land mines and unexploded ordnance continued to inflict casualties upon the Norman population following the end of the campaign. |
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In contrast, an unexploded submunition is invariably a large piece of metal and much easier to detect, even when located in heavily metal-contaminated ground. |
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Even when an area has been subject to a systematic clearance operation, including an appropriate fade-out distance, there is no guarantee that one or two live, unexploded submunitions are not just beyond the stop point. |
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States parties are often not privy to plans of the sites where the land mines and unexploded ordnance were planted and the cost of mine clearance is very high. |
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There are a lot of other issues to do with the Balkan War which we should be investigating, like unexploded cluster bombs and the environmental damage which the Commission has outlined, but let us stick to the facts. |
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The result is that massive amounts of unexploded ordnance remain on the ground, each bomblet constituting a lethal hazard for those who come near it. |
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Landmines and unexploded projectiles are particularly dangerous to children in view of their tendency to pick up unfamiliar items which they stumble upon. |
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Displacements and continuing incidents of claymore attacks, landmines, unexploded ordnance and aerial bombings have resulted in a climate of fear. |
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The lack of bridges and administrative infrastructures and, in some cases, the presence of mines and unexploded ordnances have halted the process of re-establishing the central State authorities in some places. |
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From 1 January to 30 April 2009, UNMIL forces discovered and disposed of approximately 15 weapons, 4,500 rounds of ammunition and 100 unexploded ordnances, according to UNMIL statistics. |
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During the reporting period, the Royal Moroccan Army reportedly cleared 128,000,000 square metres and destroyed 621 anti-personnel mines, 138 anti-tank mines and 473 large-calibre pieces of unexploded ordnances. |
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He is one of many children in Yemen affected by landmines and unexploded ordinance. |
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Landmines and unexploded ordnances remain a serious danger. |
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Williams lectured widely on the dangers of land mines, publicizing the presence of tens of millions of unexploded land mines in more than 70 countries. |
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Regrettably, all mine action operations in Darfur have continued to be suspended since 2 March 2009, and thus no surveys, destructions of unexploded ordnances or risk education have taken place during the reporting period. |
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They are affected by the proliferation of small arms and armed groups, landmines and unexploded ordnances, as well as terrorism and counterterrorism measures. |
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In post-war Kosovo, unexploded cluster bomblets caused more civilian deaths than landmines. |
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The end of the Cold War brought improved security overall, but it also left a dangerous legacy of aging arms, ammunition, anti-personnel mines, missiles, rocket fuel, chemicals and unexploded ordnance. |
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The organization has unearthed 2,500 antitank mines, 135,000 antipersonnel mines and 630,000 unexploded ordnances, Mr. Elmi, the acting director, said. |
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Today as landmines and unexploded ordnance continue to kill and mutilate one person every 90 minutes, the organisation is pursuing its fight against these cowardly weapons. |
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Farmer Robbie McMahon found the unexploded Mills bomb at Spancil Hill near Ennis, Co Clare. |
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If dealing with an unexploded bomb wasn't hairy enough, try it with a battery that may conk out in the middle of the job. |
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In particular, the Committee stresses the importance of educating children, parents and the public at large about the dangers of landmines and unexploded ordnance in order to prevent injury and death. |
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According to community leaders, approximately 100 children have been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnances in central and southern Somalia in the reporting period. |
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The United Nations continues to support the Government of Iraq in its goal to assist Iraq in removing mines and unexploded ordnances by 2018, in accordance with the Ottawa Treaty. |
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The ADP was able to establish trust with local communities and at the same time gained important local knowledge on the whereabouts of mines and unexploded ordnances. |
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The landscape is littered with remnants of anti-tank shells made of radioactive depleted uranium and other unexploded ordnance. |
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According to press reports, dozens of civilians have been killed in Kosovo since the end of the air campaign by the accidental detonation of unexploded cluster bomblets and landmines. |
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The orrery was driven by David Butler, who lost both legs and a hand to an unexploded bomb at the age of 11 and has competed in over 600 motorsport events, including World Championship rallies. |
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In September 2007 police investigating a break-in at the premises discovered an unexploded World War Two bomb being used as a doorstop. |
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We are already engaged in such broader clearance activities in countries such as Laos, Kosovo and Afghanistan, where the APL problem is inextricably connected to unexploded ordnance pollution. |
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Concern continues to be expressed about the presence of anti-personnel landmines and other unexploded ordnance in a number of public facilities, such as schools. |
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My delegation also wishes particularly to stress the impact on children of the illegal traffic in small arms and light weapons, landmines, cluster munitions and unexploded ordinance. |
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He now believes that the military presence and the threat of unexploded ordnance spared Culebra from being overdeveloped like much of the rest of the Caribbean. |
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This, as well as the fact that the river bed is now lined with unexploded mines and bombs, is threatening both economic and humanitarian development in the Balkans. |
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The project involves the removal of the debris of the bridges, the removal of any unexploded ordnance, and the restoration of the riverbed in that area. |
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Without the war, Vietnamese children born after 1975 would have been healthier, wealthier, and run lower risks of being killed by unexploded ordnance or poisoned by dioxin from Agent Orange. |
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Food prices have risen sharply since the start of the war as fields are inaccessible or full of unexploded ordnance, and farms have been badly damaged. |
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Considerable areas of the Bowland fells were used for military training during the Second World War, and there are still unexploded bombs in some areas. |
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Considerable areas of the Bowland fells were used for military training during World War II and there are still unexploded bombs in some areas, including nearby Wolf Fell. |
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Casualties caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance stand at 100 people per month and it's unfortunate to say most of the victims happen to be children. |
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While the economy is thriving, subsequent generations suffer the long-term effects of chemical defoliants and the haunting presence of unexploded ordnance. |
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Senator Leahy reports that over 405 cluster bomb sites, each with a radius of approximately 220 yards and containing 100,000 unexploded bomblets, have been discovered. |
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Over the past 22 years, a 19,000 kilometres square area has been cleared of mines and unexploded ordnance but a 6,000-km area is yet to be demined. |
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