Live Bomblet Cut Out of Soldier’s Thigh, Iran Says
Iranian doctors have removed a live cluster bomblet from a soldier’s thigh in a four-hour operation, Tehran radio said Thursday.
Army explosives experts defused the bomb after the operation, the radio added.
The state-run radio, monitored in Nicosia, did not identify the soldier or say when or where he was wounded.
The radio said the bomblet, apparently dropped from an Iraqi warplane, was removed by a surgical team at the Afshar Hospital in Dezful in southwest Iran.
It did not say when the operation was carried out, but it quoted a medical spokesman as saying the surgery was successful.
Cluster bombs dropped by airplanes contain smaller bomblets that are ejected over a wide area shortly before hitting the ground.
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