Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said Army Engineers serving in Adamawa State have recovered some caches of cluster bombs used by the Boko Haram terrorists in recent times. The DHQ advises people, particularly those in the North East, to be wary of such concealed lethal weapon.
Here are five things you should know about cluster bombs:
1. Cluster bombs are air-dropped or ground-launched bombs that releases or ejects smaller submunitions, that is, smaller explosives contained in individual cases.
2. These bombs are used against large areas containing many targets, such as columns of vehicles, marketplaces, places of worship or large troop concentration as the case may be
3. Some sub-munitions do not blow up immediately but remain behind and act as land-mines.
4. Unexploded bomb-lets or sub-munitions can kill or maim civilians and/or unintended targets long after a conflict has ended.
5. Some cluster bombs carry several hundred of very small explosives wrapped in a metal container like a pot while others carry larger sub-munitions that can find specific targets such as tanks.
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