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    Associated Press Worldstream
    March 19, 2004 Friday 12:08 PM Eastern Time

    Three civilians killed in latest mine explosion in Nagorno-Karabakh

    YEREVAN, Armenia

    A jeep of hunters driving in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh enclave
    hit an anti-tank mine that killed three civilians and wounded another
    six, a demining organization said Friday.

    The explosion happened Sunday evening, the office of London-based
    HALO trust in Nagorno-Karabakh's regional capital Stepanakert said.

    Nagorno-Karabakh remains laced with mines from the war that left
    ethnic Armenian forces in control of the enclave within Azerbaijan. A
    cease-fire between the two former Soviet republics was signed in
    1994, but the enclave's political status is unresolved and Armenian
    and Azeri forces face off across a demilitarized zone.

    Inlcuding the latest explosion, HALO said seven civilians have died
    in Nagorno-Karabakh this year. Nine people died in 2003.
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