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Lethal landmine legacy from battle of El Alamein

The battle of El Alamein was a turning point in World War II but the unexploded munitions it left behind continue to kill and maim the local population, as Christian Fraser reports from Egypt.

As spectators of desert warfare, Arab Bedouins have always had the front-row seats.

Today however, Egyptian Bedouin are not merely onlookers but reluctant combatants in a battle against death and injury in their ancestral lands.

The Allied and Axis forces are long gone from North Africa but their lethal legacy remains - millions of rusting landmines, bombs, mortars and artillery shells lying in wait for the unwary shepherds and their children.

The Desert Rats knew it as the Devil's Garden, this 40-mile belt of featureless land in Egypt's Western Desert.

Read entire article at BBC