Sentence examples for landmine explosion from inspiring English sources

He is the brother of Said, who lost both legs in the same landmine explosion.

In Jharkhand, in the east, Maoist guerrillas killed 26 policemen with a landmine explosion on the same day.

The latest casualties of the crisis come after the deaths of three Ukrainian servicemen in a landmine explosion on Saturday aggravated tensions.

"The two soldiers, with their legs shattered from the suspected landmine explosion, are now being transported to a military hospital", a defence spokesman told AFP.

The next day, as the team prepared to enter another poppy farm, Colonel Abdali received a phone call back at his Lashkar Gah HQ. "There's been a landmine explosion," the caller said.

The 73-year-old aide had helped to ease tensions between the two Koreas in August after two South Korean soldiers were injured in artillery fire and a landmine explosion supposedly initiated by North Korea.

The latest United Nations report on the issue, released in April 2012, says that at least 57 children were killed in Pakistan during 2011 alone - mainly by landmine explosions, roadside bombs, shelling and targeted attacks.

Before that, South Korea briefly switched on its speakers in response to landmine explosions that maimed two soldiers, which it blamed on North Korea, according to AP.

Trauma, as a consequence of road traffic accidents, armed fighting and landmine explosions, is also common.

"The tragedy of children being wounded or killed in landmine explosions is preventable," Veneman said.

At the centre, Chan looked on as several men and women who had lost limbs due to landmine explosions were trained how to walk, climb stairs and balance themselves on their new prosthesis.