A road built around Dal Lake, the jewel of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, lies in disrepair because of land mine explosions.
The rival Koreas have shown mixed progress in reconciliation efforts since stepping away from a military standoff in August, which started when land mine explosions that Seoul blamed on Pyongyang maimed two South Korean soldiers.
The problem is not that the reporters in tomorrow's show see a lot more land mine explosions, mortar fire, torture, aerial bombings, roadside massacres and kidnappings each day than is plausible.
Five other soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in separate land mine explosions and rebel attacks over the previous 24 hours, an official in the pro-Moscow Chechen administration said.
In an interview in 2012, he said he wanted to help change perceptions of disabilities, and his real passion was his foundation to help fit prosthetic legs for people who had lost limbs in land mine explosions.
Mr. Mandarino and Carmine DeSantis, both members of a Staten Island Rotary Club, succeeded last year in bringing three young Bosnian victims of land mine explosions to a Shriners hospital in Philadelphia.
For many of the wounded, sectarian strife in their home countries prevents them from living in the same neighborhood, but here they share the same hospital room as they recover from injuries received in bomb blasts, land mine explosions and missile strikes.
A land mine explosion on Monday in southern Iraq and attacks on security forces in Baghdad killed 19 people.
McIntosh lost part of his leg in 2010 in a land mine explosion while he was stationed with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.
Two of the soldiers, Matias Ferreira and Justin Gaertner, both Marines, are partial amputees as a result of land-mine explosions in Afghanistan.
On the day before the shootings, Sergeant Bales had seen a fellow soldier lose a leg in a land mine explosion, Mr. Browne, his lawyer, said.
