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UXO found in Azerbaijanâ€™s Terter

16 June 2016 17:14 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Hafiz Heydarov – APA. Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) on Thursday inspected 5 houses, 7 sown areas and 19 explosion sites in the Fuzuli, Aghdam, and Terter districts.

An unexploded ordnance (engine (Grad) part of a 9M22U missile) was found today in Terter district after the inspection of some 50,440 square meters of area.

From 7 April to 16 June, ANAMA inspected a total of 610 houses and yards, 2 military units, 2 rural cemeteries, 5 rural schools, 1 medical facility, 22 farms, sown areas, and 1 wine factory in the districts of Zardab, Terter, Aghjabedi,Aghdam, Fuzuli, Goranboy, Tovuz, Samukh, Shamkir, Jalilabad, Ujar, and in the cities of Baku and Sumgayit. As a result, 1,532 unexploded ordinances, 14 anti-pedestrian mines (PMN), 3 anti-pedestrian POMZ-2 and 8 anti-tank mines were found and neutralized.

The agency’s special purpose mobile mine-detecting groups, using trained dogs, continue to search houses, schools and other facilities situated close to the front lines.