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Students lend their legs on Landmine Awareness Day

Every 30 minutes, someone becomes a victim of the estimated 70,000,000 landmines buried in about 80 countries, the United nations says. It’s something Andrew Murcia says he watched play out on TV in Colombia. “I grew up in a country that was heavy on landmines, [especially] in the ’90s,” the third-year York University student said.