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More than half of the British soldiers who have been killed in Afghanistan recently have died after being caught in homemade bombs planted by insurgents.

The danger of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, is something hard to prepare for. Mark Urban has been discovering how they train to deal with their hidden enemy.

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