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Anti-landmine activists in western Uganda were stunned to discover a primary school using an unexploded mortar bomb as a bell last week, AFP reported.

"It was a big shock. When we arrived at the school we even found one of the students striking it," Wilson Bwambale, coordinator of Anti-Mines Network Rwenzori, said.

Bwambale said his team visited the 350-pupil primary school, one kilometer from Uganda's border with Democratic Republic of Congo, last week.

"The bottom [of the bomb] was hollow, that is why they used it as a bell, but the fuse at the top was still live," he said. "Fortunately no one hit it with enough (force) to explode the bomb."

Afterwards, Bwambale learnt that the school had been using the bomb as a bell for three years.

Last year, the same team visited a school where an unsuspecting teacher was keeping a hand grenade in one of the classrooms, Bwambale said.

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小学竟用炮弹当课铃

       据法新社报道，乌干达西部的反地雷活动人士上星期十分震惊地发现，一所小学竟用未爆炸的迫击炮炮弹当课铃。

       反雷网络鲁文佐里的协调员威尔逊•班巴勒说：“那令人相当震惊。我们到那个学校时，发现一个学生正在敲它。”

       班巴勒表示，他的团队上周造访了这个距乌干达与刚果（金）交界1千米处的小学，该小学有350名学生就读。

       他说：“（炸弹）底部空了，所以他们可以用它当课铃，但顶部的信子仍可用。所幸的是，人们敲（的力）不够大，没引爆它。”

       后来，班巴勒了解到，学校已用该炸弹当课铃使了3年。

       班巴勒表示，去年同一个团队访问了一所学校，发现一名粗心的教师竟把手榴弹放在一间教室里。

(China.org.cn July 6, 2011)