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30,000 eligible for mine-awareness education

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    The Ethiopian Rehabilitation and Development Organisation (RADO) says that it has offered mine-awareness education to 29,487 people living in areas where land mines continue to pose a serious threat to the lives of civilians following the two year border war with Eritrea. RADO said it would instruct people in the Erob and Gulomehada districts of Eastern Tigray Zone on how to prevent injury from land mines laid by Eritrean armed forces, the pro-government Walta Information Centre reported on Wednesday. The organisation's coordinator, Dawit Berhe, said one farmer and scores of domestic animals had been killed and at least nine people wounded after treading on buried anti-personnel mines in the two districts during the last planting season. Berhe also said he believed that throughout northern Ethiopia 88 people had been killed or maimed by Eritrean land mines.

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