IN KOSOVO, IN VIETNAM.A number of land mine explosions have been reported recently out of Kosovo. In one case five members of a family of seven perished as they all traveled in a car which was blown up within clear view of the Macedonian border and safety. Those deaths resulted from an anti-tank mine An anti-tank mine, (abbreviated to "AT mine"), is a type of land mine designed to damage or destroy vehicles including tanks and armoured fighting vehicles. Compared to anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines typically have a much larger explosive charge, and a fuze designed , designed to intercept heavy military equipment, here set off by a lighter vehicle. This type of mine is not banned under the Ottawa Treaty For the 1932 tariff treaty of British colonies and dominions, see . The Ottawa Treaty or the Mine Ban Treaty, formally the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction . By contrast, in clearing its most recent 10-acre site in Quang Tri province Quang Tri (in Vietnamese Quảng Trị; pronunciation ; Hán Tự: ) is a province in the North Central Coast of Vietnam, next to the former capital of Huế. , PTVN recovered two anti-personnel mines Anti-personnel mines are a form of mines designed for use against humans as opposed to anti-tank mines, which are designed for use against vehicles. This type of land mine is normally designed to injure—as opposed to killing—as many enemies as possible in order along with 40 other pieces of dangerous ordnance, among them the treacherous bomblets. Single components of a cluster device which scatters them over a wide area, each bomblet is individually timed so that the lethal threat extends over a longer term. Bomblets are among the intriguing-looking objects Vietnamese children may take for toys. |
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