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For the period January - November 2005 mines in Azerbaijan caused 9 deaths and 47 injuries

07 December 2005 [17:46] - TODAY.AZ
ANAMA reports that during November of this year it has cleared 447.651 square meters of territory from mines and unexploded ordnances (UXO).

National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) for this period disarmed 3393 mines and UXOs. The mine actions involved 22 dogs, 138 field-engineers, 15 UXO operators, 8 paramedics, and 100 assistants.

Totally 20,234,814 square meters of area have been cleared so far. 11600 mines and UXOs were disarmed and 60,985 square meters of territory were prepared for de-mining by mechanical way in November.

14 mine/UXO explosions happened in the period starting January till November, 2005 causing 47 cases of injury and 9 cases of human death.

69 mine explosions have happened since September, 2001 killing 47 people and injuring 101.

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