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Laos uncovers leftover bombs

Published: 09 March, 2009, 08:41
Edited: 17 March, 2010, 21:10


Laos, 2004 (Photo from http://www.maginternational.org)

In Laos people are still being killed and injured by bombs dropped over thirty years ago by the US during the Vietnam War.

 
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