Mined area Indicators – Mine injuries

Sheet 55     Mine Injuries

The picture shows victims of mines, submunitions and detonators. Most of these people were professional deminers injured at work.

These pictures should only be used as a “SHOCK TACTIC”. This may be necessary when people who live or work in dangerous areas have become complacent about the risks they run.
Suggested message(s):

• It can happen to anyone.
• The injuries caused by explosives can hardly ever be repaired.
• Even the smallest detonator can easily blind someone.
• If you have protective equipment, use it.
• If you do not need to go into the area, do not go.
• There is nothing brave about taking risks.
• If life is difficult now, imagine how much worse it would be if you were severely disabled.

To preserve the right to privacy of the individuals shown, the pictures have been selected so that the victims cannot be identified.

Mined area
warning signs

Areas without
signs

Informal
warning signs

Roads in
rural areas

Improvised devices
on roads

Surveyor's stick
scene

Fighter plane
scenario

Abandoned
grazing land

Tank
Scene

Washout
Scene

Embankment
Scene

Destroyed
train

Abandoned
building

Transporter
Scene

Angola bush
Scene

Power-line
Scene

Burnt-off
area

Trench
Scene

Angola
bush 2

OZM
Scene

Small
fuzes

How mines
age

Other common
AP mines

Other common
ordnance

Other common
indicators

Ammunition
dump

Mine
injuries

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