Sentence examples for * landmine in from inspiring English sources

Eventually Capa got too close: he stepped on a landmine in Vietnam in 1954, and was blown apart.

Nearly nine months after being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan, Duley made this powerful black-and-white self-portrait.

Major Sebastian Morley is quitting after four his soldiers were killed when their lightly armoured Snatch Land Rover hit a landmine in Helmand province earlier this year.

Samser Jang Khastri, 58, who lost a foot after stepping on a landmine in Bosnia in 1997 said yesterday's decision has made "all my pain worthwhile.

A military doctor said Ta Mok, aged 82, who had fought against the French colonial regime and lost a leg from a landmine in the early 1980s "died of natural causes, given his poor health and respiratory problems".

"You drive over a landmine in a very-lightly armoured Land-Rover Snatch - it's not much different from driving over it in a Ford Escort," a former member of the Royal Green Jackets who served in Iraq, Steve McLoughlin, said.

Ben McBean was 20 when he was badly injured in a landmine blast in Afghanistan in February 2008 and he was not expected to survive his flight home.

Another wheelchair basketball player, Rick Powell, lost his lower left leg in a landmine incident in southern Iraq while working for a private military contractor in 2008.

He has also rejected the mercy petitions of Mahendra Nath Das, who was sentenced for murdering a man by beheading in 1996, and four men who killed 22 policemen in a landmine blast in 1993, the so-called Veerappan Gang.

Think of the rats that locate landmines in exchange for treats.

Dozens of giant pouched rats, tethered by deminers, are used to sniff out landmines in Mozambique.