TARAWA: Residents and workers in one of Kiribati’s most densely populated communities are now safer after a joint Kiribati-New Zealand operation to safely dispose of hundreds of World War Two-era unexploded ordnance (UXO) items in Betio, Kiribati.
Supported by the New Zealand Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry, a Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130J and crew, personnel from the New Zealand Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Squadron, New Zealand Army 2nd Engineer Regiment Zodiac operators, and medical personnel were deployed to carry out…
