One Martyr, Four Injured in Detonation of Cluster Bomb in South
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One mine clearer was killed and several others wounded Monday when cluster bomb fragments exploded amid removal work in south Lebanon.
The workers, employees of the Peace Generation Organization for Demining (POD), were injured in two blasts as they combed a cluster-bomb-infested tobacco field in Yater, 10 kilometers from the city of Tyr.
Mehdi Mohammad Hirez, 20, from Maaroub, was identified as the deceased individual. He had been working for POD for three months in an area particularly heavily contaminated by "Israeli" munitions.
One mine clearer was killed and several others wounded Monday when cluster bomb fragments exploded amid removal work in south Lebanon.
The workers, employees of the Peace Generation Organization for Demining (POD), were injured in two blasts as they combed a cluster-bomb-infested tobacco field in Yater, 10 kilometers from the city of Tyr.
Mehdi Mohammad Hirez, 20, from Maaroub, was identified as the deceased individual. He had been working for POD for three months in an area particularly heavily contaminated by "Israeli" munitions.
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