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Rats help find mines
[ 2006-05-15 10:08 ]
Runcho walks on the hand of a police animal trainer at a police school in Sibate, 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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