ArmInfo. Three employees of HALO Trust - engaged in the clearance of landmines and unexploded ordnance, were killed in Nagorno-Karabakh during mine clearance works. This information was confirmed to the correspondent of ArmInfo by the press secretary of NKR President David Babayan.
At the same time, he stressed that two more HALO Trust employees were wounded. "The incident occurred in the border zone in Martakert, more detailed information about the incident will be given later, when the circumstances of the incident will be investigated," Babayan concluded.
HALO Trust is a British charity and American non-profit organization that deals with the clearance of landmines and unexploded ordnance that could pose a threat to civilians. HALO is an abbreviation of the Hazardous Area Life-Support Organization. Founded in 1988 by a member of the British Parliament and former Colonel Colin Campbell Mitchell. The staff of HALO Trust has more than 7000 sappers. Her staff worked in Nagorno-Karabakh, Cambodia, Mozambique, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Eritrea, Abkhazia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Angola and Afghanistan.