machete

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"It was more like Lord of the Flies or Borstal," she said, adding that every girl there had a machete, in order to cut the grass.

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On Saturday morning, men with machetes hacked through branches as thick as their arms, clearing patches of the road where traffic jams were at a standstill.

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In Cuba, residents of the country's second-largest city Santiago de Cuba worked with machetes to clear streets buried in debris.

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He asked: "Did AR have any remote reason - as far as you can really tell - or his family to be ordering machetes?"

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In March, Victoria announced legislative changes to its Control of Weapons Act, making it illegal to sell or possess machetes, with the new law to start in September.

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