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Ddasaccident523, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident523, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
Details of this accident have been withheld by the demining NGO that employed the Victim. A spreadsheet including the Victim’s name and very brief details of the accident was made available in 2007. Some details can be inferred from the information released. For example, the face injury implies that the victim’s visor was not being worn in the correct manner.
Ddasaccident578, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident578, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
Initial reports state that [the victim of the first accident] was working in his lane when he initiated an unknown item. The size of the blast would indicate a partial or fuse assembly. A few seconds later, a larger explosion was heard, where [the Victim of this accident] had moved from his lane to assist [the first Victim]. [The Victim of this accident] moved using the shortest possible route, through uncleared area.
Ddasaccident538, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident538, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
After the team had located all metal scrap and rests from the destroyed ammunition by raking the whole demolition area and checking inside the broken sandbags that was used as protection during the demolition, they started to clean the area from the broken sandbags and vegetation. The team started to burn all the collected sandbags and vegetation. In one of the sandbags apparently one fuse was stuck after the demolition and was not discovered by the deminers when they checked the area after non exploded devices. The fuse probably went of by the heat from the fire and injured a …
Ddasaccident755, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident755, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
Saturday, 7 May 2005, at 10:20 a.m. local time, [Demining group] suffered a mine accident in the manual clearance teams deployed at the Nhaapua site, Chibabava district, Sofala Province, Mozambique. A deminer, working in his lane detonated a AP Gyata mine while conducting manual clearance.
Ddasaccident521, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident521, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
This accident is classed as a “Missed-mine accident” because the mine was presumably either missed during survey or during clearance. It is presumed that demining group included it in their spreadsheet of demining accidents because the area should have been cleared.