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.
David Rozelle had his foot amputated in 2003 after his Humvee hit a land mine in Iraq.
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.
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.
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.
Instead, people support a land-mine ban, feeling that at least they are doing something.
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.
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.
The groups own much of the land in northern Quebec and without their blessing, mining companies as well as provincial government have no right to mine their mineral rich land.
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But, according to the report, there remains a serious lack of battlefield helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, effective operational radios and mine-proof land vehicles.
After it finishes extracting what it believes is the small bit of gold still left in the old mine, it plans to turn the land into a park.
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Charles Jencks's latest land sculpture is being built on a former open cast mine in Fife.
Bragagnolo said the San Francisco mine is a 45, 000-hectare land package with gold reserves of 780, 000 ounces and sits in a major structural trend.
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They say the mine will pollute water and force people off their land.
In particular, according to Orellana, Pacific Rim failed to provide an adequate environmental impact assessment for its proposed mine and did not meet the Salvadoran requirement that mining companies own the land that would be affected by their operations.
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In Tanzania, mine-sweepers are training local rats, which scratch when they sniff out land mines.
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