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| Armored Backhoe and Collapsed Buildings Infested with Mines |
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| "[M]anual demining of collapsed buildings and filled-in irrigation canals was extremely slow, not cost effective and caused many accidents among deminers." |
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"Machines such as the Armored Backhoe excavator have proven very useful in Afghanistan for excavating rubble from collapsed buildings, where several layers of mines have often been buried, or discovering filled-in irrigation canals, which are overgrown with vegetation and may have multiple mine layers. The exacavator spreads the ground by the bucketful in a clear area where it still requires checking by the manual deminers."
Kefayatullah Eblagh, Director, Afghan Technical Consultants (ATC), "Manual Demining in Afghanistan," JOURNAL OF MINE ACTION, "Deminers, Manual Demining and their Personal Protective Equipment," Issue 4.2, Summer 2000, p. 25. |
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