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Hence state security had not swept the area with their mine-detectors.
CNN: BRAVE AS A LION
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His home narrowly escaped a deadly blaze that swept through the area in 1993.
BBC: California faces up to year-round forest fires
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In some parts of Mindanao, people took to gold panning as floodwaters swept a mining area in Mawab town.
MSN: Weakened typhoon set to make second landfall in Philippines - Weather | NBC News
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But he's worried that it won't, because the moneyed Wall Streeters who swept into the area in the late 1990s have grown cautious.
FORBES: I, Landlord
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Everything about this anti-war film is geared for poignancy, from the snow-swept settings (the area around Park City, Utah, stands in for Europe) to the Christian symbolism.
NEWYORKER: A Midnight Clear
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However, they haven't had the same success as last month when they swept through a huge area of government-held territory in the Wanni region further south, meeting little resistance.
BBC: Tigers push northwards
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Hundreds of federal and local investigators began to slog through a vast trove of videos, photos, local hotel manifests and other potential evidence to determine how bombs could have been placed in an area that had been swept for explosives by bomb-sniffing dogs, said people familiar with the investigation.
WSJ: Boston Bomb Clues Surface: Lethal Devices Believed Built From Pressure Cookers; Hotels, Rentals Canvassed
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The visitors took a deserved lead when Lee Martin played the ball across the penalty area from the left and Drury swept the ball into the bottom corner from 20 yards.
BBC: Sport - Leeds 3-1 Ipswich
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But international pressure is unlikely to sway a regime which on Saturday swept to a crucial victory in local election in the Western province, an area that includes the capital, Colombo.
ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka
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The men - who are from Cornwall but were visiting family in the area where the accident happened - had been fishing at the beach when a wave swept the younger man into the sea as they were leaving.
BBC: Tregardock
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Islamist militants were swept from Gao last month, but Jean-Yves Le Drian said clashes were continuing in the area.
BBC: Mali: France seeks UN peacekeeping role