Sunday, 24 December 2017

MINE DETECTORS AT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE MARTYRS RAQQA

Members of the six-person team from the Roj Mine Control Organisation -- a non-governmental organisation working in Kurdish-held areas -- use handheld detectors to look for explosives in the heavily-damaged Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs in the city centre of the eastern Syrian city of Raqa on December 20, 2017. Two historic churches in Syria's Raqa will be declared free of explosives just in time for Christmas, but the devastation in the city has left no one to celebrate in them. As its three-year reign over Raqa came to an end in October, the Islamic State group planted bobby traps all across the city, including in the two main cathedrals. / AFP PHOTO / Delil souleimanDELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images
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