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she says it was burning all over the road. her neighbor brings out a bag of what he thinks are incendiary munitions that landed in his garden -- explosives made to cause devastating fires. using them on civilian areas is against international law. munitions experts tell abc news the hexagonal cartridges may hold magnesium, carried by soviet-area incendiary rockets. everyday life here now a frontline in war, like for vitaly, a farmer who plows his fields just 15 miles from the russian front. he shows us the missile that landed in his field. and the video from where his tractor pulled it out of the ground. "we are fighting on the second front line," he says, "the front line of supplying our country with food." he's even fortified his tractor. the driver in a flak jacket and helmet, as he tends to his crops. your tractor is your tank? "yes, we are risking our lives," he says, "but we have to do it."
aftermath of the attack and sent to cnn by a contact. a cameraman working for cnn subsequently filmed these images for us. munitions experts tell cnn this was a u.s.-made bomb, weighing in at half a ton. the first five digits there are the cage number. the commercial and government entity number. this number here denotes lockheed martin. one of the top u.s. defense contractors. >> we're at the forefront of the science that makes them real. >> reporter: this particular mk-82 is a paveway. a laser-guided, precision bomb. it's targeting accuracy, a particular point of pride for lockheed martin. part of an arms deal with saudi arabia sanctioned and contracted out by the u.s. government. so why does this matter? because the devastation inflicted by the mk-82 is all too familiar in yemen. in march 2016, a strike at a
busy market. >> translator: i saw the bomb hit the bus. it blew it into those shops and threw bodies clear to the other side of those buildings. we found bodies scattered everywhere. there was a severed head inside. >> this video was filmed in the aftermath of the attack. a cameraman working for cnn subsequently filmed these images for us. munitions experts say this was a u.s.-made mk 82 bomb weighing half a ton. the first five digits there are the cage number, the commercial and government entity number. this denotes lockheed martin. >> we're at the forefront that makes them real. >> this particular mk 82 is a paveway, a laser-guided precision bomb. its targeting accuracy a particular point of pride for lockheed martin.
horribly wrong. a plane from the u.s. backed saudi led coalition struck a bus carrying them. dozens died. some of the bodies were so mu mutilat mutilated identification became all but impossible. this was a direct hit in the busy of a busy market. >> translator: i saw the bomb hit the bus. it blew it into those shops and three bodies clear through the other side of those buildings. we found bodies scattered everywhere. there was a severed head inside the bomb crater. >> reporter: this video was shot in the aftermath of the attack and sent to cnn. a cameraman working for cnn subsequently filmed these images for us. munitions experts tell cnn this was a u.s. marked k 82 bomb
chemical weapons littering the sea floor. after world war ii the u.s. military had such a surplus of munitions experts say they were dumped in the water from 1946 to 1970 when it was eventually band. historians say people didn't think much about it back then because they were discarded in water so deep it was thought that they would never be disturbed but as we well know through the years humans have gone deeper and deeper in search of oil, put down utility cables and to fish and as more time passes scientists say joy danger increases. >> the containers could rust or degrade 3-time or metal containers used thought were totally impervious, enough time has gone by for things to start to corrode and break apart. >> world war ii era bomb was discovered near tampa, florida at the end of last month.
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