bombies

Each cluster bomb casing scattered several hundred tennis-ball-sized bomblets (known as bombies in Laos) over 5000-sq-meter areas.

NY Times Disdainful Ridicules Once Carpet Bombed Tiny Laos 2009

I spent some time in Laos, in 1995, and saw children under the age of 10 missing arms and legs, or blind, because they'd run into stray or buried anti-personnel "bombies" (as they call them there), a deadly legacy of the U.S. secret air war against that country that had ended a decade earlier.

Anti-Personnel Weapons: Israel's Crime, or America's? 2006

Cluster bombs, known here as "bombies," account for about half the unexploded ordnance on the ground and most of the casualties.

USATODAY.com - 30-year-old bombs still very deadly in Laos 2003

The shells of 'bombies' a nickname for the tennis-ball-sized bomblets, litter fields all over Laos, the most-bombed country in the world per capita.

War Is A Crime .org 2010

Half the casualties are young boys, most killed by exploding tennis-ball-sized cluster bomblets - christened "bombies" locally - that are everywhere.

unknown title 2009

Children seem to find bombies irresistible, especially the BLU-24/B, nicknamed "orange" for its spherical shape.

USATODAY.com - 30-year-old bombs still very deadly in Laos 2003

The Vienthong school has twice-monthly classes on the dangers of submunitions, known locally as "bombies."

TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

Of the 50,000 victims of unexploded ordnance in Laos, about 26 per cent were under 18, and over the past decade, 30 per cent of the victims were involved in accidents caused by bombies, Maligna said.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010