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UAE task force clears over 6,800 mines in Lebanon
Source: BI-ME , Author: BI-ME staff
Posted: Sat October 6, 2007 12:00 am
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LEBANON. The administration of the UAE Project for Support and Reconstruction of Lebanon has made another achievement. The task force has succeeded in clearing 7.5 million square metres of the mine infested Southern Lebanon and have declared those areas free of mines and cluster bombs.

According to Captain Ibrahim Ali Al Falahi, about 7.5 million square metres of land in Southern Lebanon had been cleared of mines, cluster bombs and other unexploded and dangerous projectiles since his group started work up to the end of September 2007.

He said 6,824 mines and cluster bombs had been retrieved and destroyed, adding that the demining work covered 68 villages, which have now been certified free of any mine and cluster bomb danger.

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