Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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Death In A Garbage Dump

Mark From Ireland
Gorillas Guides
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:41 EST

Maysan: Five People Die Amongst Them A Teenager and Two Children Die Scavenging For Copper

Five people were killed today by exploding ordinance from previous wars in two separate incidents.

In the first incident in West Amarah three brothers Hussein Sabri Matanch (Aged 18) and Rafael Qasim (Aged 12) and Jasim (Aged 9) were trying to dismantle a mortar shell to get at the copper inside it so that they could sell it to scrap dealers. Here’s how eyewitnesses to their deaths describe what happened:

Maysan: Five People Die Amongst Them A Teenager and Two Children Die Scavenging For Copper

Five people were killed today by exploding ordinance from previous wars in two separate incidents.

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