Rwanda to be declared free of landmines

Rwanda is to be become the first country declared free of landmines.



The announcement is to be made at the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World in Columbia.



Hundreds of people have been killed and horrifically injured by landmines in Rwanda.



Landmines were laid between 1990 and 1994 in Rwanda and over the past three years more than over 9,000 have been destroyed by Rwandan soldiers.



Ben Remfrey of the Mines Awareness Trust, which supervised the clearance, says although other countries have had far more mines laid, this is a significant step.