The Directorate for Mine Action /Planning and Information Department held the fourth and last training workshop during this year for the period from 5 to 9 September for EOD detachments of Civil Defense working in (Basra, Missan, Al-Muthana, Al-Nasiriya) governorates, at the headquarters of Civil Defense/Basra in the south of Iraq.

The Director General of DMA, Eng. Dhafir Mahmood, said that the training workshop lasted over five days and participated by more than 18 trainees, in cooperation with Civil Defense Directorate/EOD Division in the Ministry of Interior. It included discussing the important topics of research principles and field investigation for evidence related to research on munitions, evaluating the armament cases, risks, their effects, the impact of finding them, what remains of them after their complete or partial detonation, mechanism of writing delivery reports and description of their cases, their armament, using drawing techniques in dealing with unexploded ordnance and the fortification procedures by sandbags for ammunition above and below the surface