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Over 100,000 cluster bombs in Lebanon: UN

Updated on 31 August 2006

By John Sparks

The UN has estimated there are more than 100,000 bomblets spread across southern Lebanon.


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Dropped during the final days of Israel's war with Hizbollah, cluster bombs could provide one of its deadlier legacies.

Many are lying unexploded across farmland and near residential areas.

Israel has pledged to hand over maps showing where it carried out bombing raids - but even with that information, it's expected to take more than a year to clear them all up up.

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