Sentence examples for landmine blast from inspiring English sources

The buried charges were designed to simulate a landmine blast.

Nigerian troops were notably forced to retreat from the group's Sambisa Forest stronghold this week after a landmine blast killed one soldier and three vigilantes.

Seoul had turned those on (they were silent for a decade) on 10 August, after a landmine blast a week earlier maimed two of its soldiers.

Lou McGrath, CEO of the charity Find a Better Way, which is funding the project, said it could herald an important breakthrough for landmine blast survivors.

South Korea has promised to halt its propaganda broadcasts after North Korea expressed regret over a recent landmine blast that maimed two South Korean troops.

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.

Since the end of the war, landmine blasts have killed some 600 people and wounded more than 1,100.

Communal tensions there have worsened in the past few weeks, following a spate of landmine blasts against Sri Lankan soldiers and revenge attacks by Sinhalese mobs on Tamil villagers.

The impact on children  There has been a significant decrease in the numbers of people killed or injured by landmine blasts.

There are 25,000 amputees among the country's 63,000 victims of landmines and blasts from unexploded ordinance left after 30 years of civil war.

His father has just thumped his plough into a landmine and the blast appears to have taken off his leg.