Tag: landmine

March 6, 2018: Boko Haram massacres loggers

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date 2022-03-06
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A logging operation in Nigeria in 1967, for illustrative purposes (Photo: Terry Whalebone on flickr, CC BY 2.0)

On March 6, 2018 four loggers were killed when they stepped on a landmine left by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria

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January 15, 2012: Al Shabaab landmine targets water supply in Somalia

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date 2022-01-15
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A tanker filling up with water in Somalia, 2014 (Photo: AMISOM Photo / Tobin Jones, CCO 1.0)

On January 15, 2012 a water tanker transporting its load hit a landmine probably laid by Al Shabaab terrorists killing three in Somalia.

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