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Bomb hero puts finger in trigger
From JEROME STARKEY
in Kabul

AN Army bomb disposal hero escaped being blown to bits by a landmine — by quickly jamming his fingers into a CLOTHES PEG.

The crude wooden peg had been used as a makeshift trigger to set off the deadly device.

Two electrical contacts were fixed to the gripping parts of the peg — which were held open by rubber wrapped around the opposite end...