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Four wounded after bomb explodes in southern Lebanon
The high "dud" rate of the small-bombs means that they effectively have become land mines littered across Lebanon, waiting to explode when someone touches them.
- Agencies
- Published: 10:55 February 28, 2008
Beirut: Four people have been Wounded in bomb explosion in Shehabiyeh, South Lebanon late on Wednesday, a state-run national news agency rreported.
Al Manar television, mouthpiece of Hezbollah, said on its website that the 10:30 pm blast near the Shehabiyeh mosque was likely a leftover Israeli cluster bomb.
Israel dropped more than one million cluster bombs on south Lebanon during its 34-day war against Hezbollah in the summer of 2006.
The high "dud" rate of the small-bombs means that they effectively have become land mines littered across Lebanon, waiting to explode when someone touches them.
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