A team of 10 Chinese experts left Kunming, Yunnan Province, for Thailand on Tuesday at the request of the Thai government to help with landmine clearance, according to military sources.

 

The experts are from the landmine clearance training center of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Yunnan, southwest China.

 

These experts were twice sent to Africa on humanitarian landmine sweeping missions, the sources said.

 

To acclimatize to Thailand's tropical weather, the servicemen underwent a three-month training program before departure.

 

Special apparatuses and equipment were made for use in the mission, the sources said.

 

(Xinhua News Agency September 7, 2005)