{"id":5462,"date":"2018-02-17T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T16:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5462-un-clearing-mosul-from-mines-and-bombs-may-take-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2018-02-17T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T16:28:57","slug":"un-clearing-mosul-from-mines-and-bombs-may-take-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5462-un-clearing-mosul-from-mines-and-bombs-may-take-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: Clearing Mosul from mines and bombs may take a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the United Nations, clearing the city of Mosul in Iraq from unexploded bombs and mines could last more than 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>According to the United Nations, clearing the city of Mosul in Iraq from unexploded bombs and mines could last more than 10 years.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cLocating and detonating unexploded bombs dropped by the fighters of US-led coalition and mines planted by ISIS terrorist group in different areas of Mosul may take a decade of time, which puts in real danger the lives of million Iraqi people who want to return to their ruined homes in the city after three years of ISIS occupation,\u201d said a United Nations expert on mine neutralization.<\/h4>\n<h4>The coalition\u2019s unexploded bombs are only a small part of Mosul\u2019s problems. The bulk of the explosives have been hidden by ISIS fighters to be triggered by the slightest movement, even picking up a child\u2019s toy, lifting a vacuum cleaner, or opening an oven door.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe destruction of Mosul left about 11 million tons of debris, and it is believed that two thirds of the explosives are buried under the rubble,\u201d said Pierre Ledohammer, the director of UN action plan against landmines.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cOur estimates indicate that clearing West of Mosul from mines and bombs will take more than a decade due to the complexity of the explosives and the extensive area that needs to be covered,\u201d he said at a news conference in Geneva.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the United Nations, clearing the city of Mosul in Iraq from unexploded bombs and mines could last more than 10 years. \u00a0 According to the United Nations, clearing the city of Mosul in Iraq from unexploded bombs and mines could last more than 10 years. \u201cLocating and detonating unexploded bombs dropped by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,117,172,338],"class_list":["post-5462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-iraq","tag-mosul","tag-united-nations","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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