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Ddasaccident371, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident371, Hd-Aid
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At approximately 10:55hrs an uncontrolled detonation occurred in the search and clearance block (9m south of the Northerly base line and 13m West of the Easterly red/white area marking rope).
Ddasaccident205, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident205, Hd-Aid
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On Wednesday 04 April 2001 at 1025 hours, [Demining group] deminer [the Victim] accidentally detonated an R2M2 anti-personnel landmine whilst working in minefield H186 (Fazenda Usoque) approximately 12 km north of Huambo. He escaped “virtually unscathed”.
Ddasaccident408, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident408, Hd-Aid
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A LAV III following the Nyala struck the mine with the right rear intermediate wheel. Force of explosion destroyed both intermediate tyres. Three pers were in the LAV III and no injuries were sustained.”
Ddasaccident403, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident403, Hd-Aid
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Deminer had searched the working lane with his metal detector, having clearly marked the reached right border of his working lane. However it is obvious that he did not mark the left border of his working lane, i.e. he did not follow the metal detector search progress. He most probably had in mind to additionally mark the reached or ‘searched’ area. After searching the mentioned area with the metal detector without any signal that would indicate the presence of metal, he went back to the beginning of his lane, left the detector there, took two pickets, hammer and the base …
Ddasaccident430, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident430, Hd-Aid
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At approximately 11:00hrs on 20 February, a left hand drive Land Rover with add-on armour for mine protection, crewed by a [Demining group] Survey Team struck a landmine. The vehicle’s front left wheel area and part of the engine were extensively damaged. There were no serious injuries.
Ddasaccident358, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident358, Hd-Aid
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The deminer was conducting manual clearance utilising full excavation drills. At 09:15 he was excavating the front right comer of his lane he initiated what is believed to be a V550.
Ddasaccident355, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident355, Hd-Aid
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At 0829 Hrs on Monday 29th January 200 1, a deminer from Mine Action Team Number 2 from Pursat Province, was injured by a small explosion, at Svay Donkeo minefield. He was conducting Electronic Clearance drills as part of a two man demining pair, when he found an as yet unidentified metallic item which exploded in his hand when he picked it up.
Ddasaccident362, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident362, Hd-Aid
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Whilst at the next site they heard a secondary explosion and looked back to see five young boys running towards the village from the site of the explosion. The RT ran to the village but could only find one of the boys, [the Victim] aged 12 years. [The Victim] was found to have wounds to his lower abdomen, on both sides.
Ddasaccident583, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident583, Hd-Aid
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On 17th January 2001 demining was being conducted around a former helicopter base in San Francisco Libre, near Managua. A deminer stepped on a PMN mine just outside the marked area while moving between the front and back of the lane. He was “going to prod” so had presumably returned to the back of the lane to remove his metal-detector.
Ddasaccident333, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident333, Hd-Aid
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No formal Accident report was on record in the MAC offices in June 2001. From other papers it is clear that an excavation accident occurred at 10:25. The Victim was prodding and detonated a PMN mine.