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Cluster bomb kills UK deminer
11/10/2007 13:06 - (SA)
Tyre - A British member of a demining team was killed on Thursday by a cluster bomb dropped by Israeli forces during last year's war in Lebanon, officials said.
The 36-year-old was killed in the village of Kunin, about 30km southeast of the city of Tyre, said Dalya Farran, spokesperson for the Mine Action Co-ordination Centre.
"He was the supervisor of a team that has been clearing cluster bombs in that area and there was an accident with a cluster bomb that resulted in his death," Farran said.
The munitions dropped by Israel during its devastating air war against Lebanon last year included at least a million cluster bomblets, according to the United Nations.
Unexploded ordnance has killed at least 38 people and wounded 217 since the conflict ended in August, according to UN figures.
- AFP
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