Cluster bomb wounds three in Lebanon

Source: Alalam.ir, 25-11-2006
BEIRUT--A cluster bomb left over from "Israeli" war against Lebanon has wounded two members of an international team of land mine-clearing experts and a Lebanese medic.
Lebanese security officials said the explosion happened near the village of Deir Mimas, south of Marjayoun Friday where the experts were clearing a field for ArmorGroup, a London-based company working for the UN.
They stepped on the cluster bomb while pursuing a herd of goats that had detonated a cluster bomb in a field, the officials said.
ArmorGroup said one of the wounded was British and the other Bosnian.
The three men were rushed to hospital in the town of Marjayoun.
The condition of the ordnance disposal experts, David Alderson of Britain and Damir Paradzik of Bosnia, was described as serious but the wounds of the medic, who was not identified, were not as severe.
The United Nations and human rights groups have condemned the Zionist regime for firing as many as 4 million cluster bombs into Lebanon during last summer`s invasion.
UN demining experts say up to 1 million cluster bombs failed to explode and continue to threaten civilians.
At least 24 people have died in cluster bomb explosions in Lebanon since the war ended in a UN-brokered ceasefire on Aug. 14.