Deadly threat of unexploded bombs in the Pacific persists 80 years on


This year is the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, but in some countries, the trail of death and destruction continues.

Bombs, nearly a century old, are still exploding, killing and maiming people and contaminating land. Four years ago, a group of young people gathered for a barbecue in a residential backyard. They were cooking food over an open fire in the ground. Suddenly, the earth exploded with no warning. Maeverlyn Pitanoe, a youth mentor, and two young men were standing near to where the ageing bomb had been buried in the garden.

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Source: Independent Australia News


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