Thursday, May 17, 2007

400 million people live in minefields

400 million people live in "minefields": report (Reuters)

Ethiopian and Somali soldiers guard a cache of recovered landmines in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, 09 May 2007. A landmine blast has killed three civilians in the Somali capital Mogadishu, shortly after a government convoy drove past, witnesses and officials said.(AFP)Reuters - Some 400 million people around the world live and work in what are effectively minefields, at daily risk of death or maiming by cluster bombs, according to a report issued on Wednesday.


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