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UN mine sweeper killed in Cyprus blast
29 October 2009 / TODAY'S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, İSTANBUL
A mines expert was killed in Cyprus on Wednesday while clearing landmines on the divided island, the United Nations has announced. Femisberto Novele, a 49-year-old from Mozambique, was the first fatality since a project to clear the "Green Line" between Turkish and Greek Cypriot forces began five years ago. The incident occurred southeast of Nicosia.
Cyprus has been divided between a Turkish north and a Greek Cypriot south since 1974, when Turkey sent troops to the island following a decade of ethnic clashes and finally a pro-Greek coup to unite the island with Greece. A UN force monitors a 180-kilometer (116 mile) ceasefire line. To date, the mission has removed and destroyed more than 14,000 mines and cleared 57 minefields.
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