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Headline Two Finnish Soldiers Killed, Five Seriously Injured as Rescue Lorry Strikes Anti-Tank Mine

Caption Description Two Finnish soldiers were killed and five seriously injured in a minefield accident on 14 February. The incident took place in the western sector of the new UNEF temporary buffer area about 15 kilometres West-South-West of UNEF forward Headquarters in Fanara, on the coast of the Great Bitter Lake. At 1302 hours GMT, a Land Rover driven by Capt. Olavi Iisakki Kaski struck an anti-tank mine (M-15 USA) in an uncharted Israeli minefield. Capt. Kaski and a radio operator were slightly wounded. A Finnish rescue team riding in a lorry rushed to the scene to rescue them but the vehicle hit another anti-tank mine. Killed were Sgt. Risto Jaako Latva Hakuni and Sgt. Risto Tapani Majasaari. Seriously injured were Sgt. Jorma Hannes Kolehmainen, Capt. Mauno Kaleva Maard, Pte. Jukka Antero Pesoner, Pte. Erkki Reino Huhani Maekinen, and Pte. Kari Johannes Marttunen. Two Finnish battalion ambulances with doctors and an engineer team went to the area. The Israeli armed forces sent a helicopter which evacuated the injured soldiers to Tel Hashmoer Hospital near Tel Aviv.

A view of the destroyed lorry and some of the anti-tank mines (M-15) that were uncovered and defused by members of the Egyptian Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team (EODT) in the uncharted Israeli minefield. At far left is the destroyed Land Rover.

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Unique Identifier UN7594902

NICA ID 246847

Production Date 02/15/1974 7:42:54 PM

Country Egypt

Credit UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata

File size 4.09 MB