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Malheureusement, leur emplacement dans ces champs de mines a souvent été modifié par des forces hostiles ou sous l'effet de l'eau ou d'autres éléments naturels, de sorte que, dans bien des cas, les installations et équipements que les champs de mines devaient initialement protéger se trouvaient en fait isolés, ce qui rendait l'entretien et la réparation des ponts et autres types d'infrastructures impossibles.
Unfortunately, the location of the land-mines in those minefields was often changed by hostile forces or by the action of water and other natural elements. The result was often that the installations and equipment that had previously been protected by land-mines were in fact isolated by them. Maintenance and repair of those bridges and other types of infrastructure was impossible.
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