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Publication Date
4-13-1992
Keywords
DDAS, 1992, Kuwait, missed mine, PMN, AP
Abstract
To save time, breach lanes were reduced in width to 50cms. A Ghurkha deminer, walking in the ‘reduced width” lane activated a PMN (either a Chinese Type 58 copy of the PMN or an Iraqi copy). It seems that the TNT in the mine had cracked up causing a partial detonation.
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