IRAQ: MINE DETECTION WORKERS WITH SNIFFER DOGS SEARCH AND CLEAR MINE FIELDS IN IRAQ

Record ID: 647568

  • Title: IRAQ: MINE DETECTION WORKERS WITH SNIFFER DOGS SEARCH AND CLEAR MINE FIELDS IN IRAQ
  • Date: 4th June 2003
  • Summary: (W5) BASRA, IRAQ (JUNE 4, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV WORRKERS FROM MINE DETECTION INTERNATIONAL SEARCHING FOR MINES WITH SNIFFER DOGS (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. SLV OF DEWORKERS IN MINE FIELD/ DOG SNIFFING EARTH AND JUMPING UP AT HANDLER 0.18 3. WIDE OF MINE FIELD WITH HANDLERS AND DOGS 0.22 4. CLOSE/ SLV OF DOGS IN CAGES 0.33 5. SLV HANDLER AND DOG SEARCHING MINE FIELD (2 SHOTS) 0.54 6. SLV DEMINING WORKER IN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING AND HELMET 0.59 7. SMV DEMINING WORKER WITH DOG LEAD 1.08 8. CLOSE OF DOG SNIFFING GROUND 1.21 9. WIDE OF DEMINING WORKER AND SNIFFER DOGS AT WORK 1.29 10. CLOSE OF DOG AND HANDLER 1.32 11. SLV DE-MINING WORKER LYING ON GROUND WITH MINE DETECTOR EXCAVATING MINE 1.48 12. SLV MINE WORKER TAKING OFF PROTECTIVE CLOTHING 1.58 13. VARIOUS, MINES DETECTION WORKER LYING ON GROUND WORKING ON MINE (2 SHOTS) 2.12 14. WIDE OF LINE OF LAND MINES EXPOSED ABOVE GROUND 2.20 15. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHN DEXTON OF MINE DTECTION INTERNATIONAL SAYING "First of all the company working here is Mine Detection International with offices in the UK and Zimbabwe. "We were tasked by the U.N. Mine Action centre to come and check this area out. Our survey people had come down prior to us and through information discovered there were tank mines lying on the surface." 2.50 16. VARIOUS, TANK MINES LYING ON SURFACE (2 SHOTS) 3.00 17. SLV GROUP OF MINES LYING IN THE SAND 3.06 18. CLOSE OF LAND MINES WIRED TOGETHER FOR CONTROLLED EXPLOSION (2 SHOTS) 3.22 19. SLV MINE DETECTION WORKER WITH SHOVEL , WALKING FROM TRUCK 3.29 20. SLV DE-MINING WORKERS SCRAPING AWAY FROM TANK MINES 3.35 21. VARIOUS, WORKERS ARRANGING MINES AND SAND BAGS FOR CONTROLLED EXPLOSION (3 SHOTS) 3.52 22. VARIOUS, MINES BEING DETONATED, SMOKE RISING (4 SHOTS) 4.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BASRA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA8XOCK1P9N2AKOPZYQRGTVTZ1M
  • Story Text: Mine detection workers have found numerous amounts of
    tank mines lying on or close to the surface of land close to
    Basra. The workers have been tasked by the United Nations to
    search for and clear mines in the aftermath of the conflcit in
    Iraq. The mines were later detonated.


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