Vij said the suspected rebels triggered a land mine that blew up one of the cars.
Martin John Begosh was wounded as his military vehicle hit a land mine in northern Bosnia.
When you step on a land mine, you have to get away as soon as possible.
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Yet for many impoverished nations, the land mine is the only affordable means of defense.
David Rozelle had his foot amputated in 2003 after his Humvee hit a land mine in Iraq.
So not only is Fatah a dead horse, it is a dead horse rigged to a land mine.
Lummus engaged in what his citation calls a heroic one-man assault before he was killed by a land mine.
Revelations waited for them like all the silent seconds on a digital alarm clock before the shrieking starts or else like a land mine.
This Protocol will significantly strengthen the restrictions on land mine use, and, if adhered to will save many lives as we work toward a universal ban.
She and her new husband, a war veteran who lost half of one foot to a land mine, bought a Mercedes van and have added a second floor to the home they inherited.
Saturday's ambush, in which the suspected insurgents set off a land mine and fired at a convoy of cars carrying Congress workers from a party rally, was one of the most deadly targeting politicians.
Indeed, it points to such laudable projects such as a low-cost, wind-powered land mine detonator -- not exactly the kind of thing one would pick up on the next Target run (even on sale).
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His May 9-15 visit will include trips to Arlington National Cemetery, Walter Reed National Medical Center and an exhibition on Capitol Hill about land mine clearance, a favorite subject of his late mother, Princess Diana.
Ajilon Finance president Neil Lebovits believes that employees need to tread a fine line when discussing politics at work, describing the issue as "a potential land mine" capable of disturbing office harmony and antagonizing colleagues.
In a separate incident, a Malian army vehicle drove over a land mine during a patrol Saturday around 110 kilometers (70 miles) from the northern Malian town of Ansongo, killing two people on board, said the Malian military.
When their hapless British director (Steve Coogan) is blown up by a land mine, the stars are left to fend for themselves in the jungle, whereupon they are beset by real enemies a horde of drug dealers and forced to fight back.
To make their mice hypersensitive to explosives, the researchers altered the gene responsible for the DNT receptor so that the transgenic mice have as many as one million neurons in which the odor receptor is tuned to the fragrance of a land mine.
In the eyes of many of his classmates, Shinseki, who lost nearly half his right foot after stepping on a Vietnam land mine, was doing for the troops in Iraq what President Lyndon Johnson and his secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, had failed to do for America's troops in Vietnam: he was looking out for them regardless of the political consequences.
If you ask a farmer in America he or she will say this land is mine, it will allways be the land of my family.
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Instead, people support a land-mine ban, feeling that at least they are doing something.
But by distorting statistics, the ICBL presents the land-mine problem as being too vast to be addressed by clearance.
But if God told me that land is mine, then to compromise is to sell my soul, to betray God.
Princess Diana actively had campaigned for a land-mine ban, and during her funeral, many television programs showed photos of her with Bosnian and Angolan victims.
The delegation included experts on labor rights and economic development, rule of law and political reform, ethnic conflict and reconciliation, land-mine removal, and criminal justice.
They have helped test the impact of nonlethal munitions like plastic and rubber bullets and have helped determine the best kind of footwear for land-mine clearance teams.
At least one vehicle at the front of the convoy was then hit by a land-mine blast before as many as 200 suspected rebels opened fire, they added.
In the attack in Chhattisgarh state's Jagdalpur district, suspected Maoists triggered a land-mine blast and then opened fire at a convoy of Congress party workers and leaders who were leaving the area after a rally, police said.
The remaining DynCorp trucks were packed with guns and men, including two specialists in land-mine and explosives removal: a husky, soft-spoken Samoan named Suani, who often wore a sarong and draped a kaffiyeh over his head, like an Arab sheikh, and Anton, a Croatian from Mostar, who rarely spoke.
In Season 2, the show reversed those proportions, emphasizing arcs above episodes, in order to chronicle the black-humor ballad of Mags, who killed a man, tried to adopt his daughter, and forged a canny bargain with a corporation that wanted to strip-mine her land.
Back in Orissa, even when Agarwal announced he would donate a billion dollars to set up a university in Orissa that would look to Stanford University for inspiration, his plans were greeted with deep suspicion and the locals were convinced he wanted the land so he could mine it.
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