Rats help find mines [ 2006-05-15 10:08 ]
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Lola
stands on a stick at a police school inSibate, Colombia May 3, 2006. Colombian
police are training white-furred, pink-eyed rats to locate landmines in
Colombia. More than 1,075 Colombians
were killed or maimed by stepping on mines in 2005, the government says, a
higher number than in any other heavily mined country such as
Cambodia or
Afghanistan. More than 375 deaths and
injuries have been recorded so far this year. (Reuters)
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