Sentence examples for set off a mine from inspiring English sources

The rebels set off a mine under one of the trucks in a Russian convoy, then opened fire on the soldiers with automatic weapons and grenade launchers.

Coming back, on the road he had already traversed once, a truck ahead of him set off a mine and was completely destroyed.

In the early hours one morning, Jenkins informed his squad that he was going to check the road, but instead he tied a white T-shirt to his M-14 rifle and crossed into the D.M.Z., taking "high, slow, deliberate steps" to avoid trip wires that would set off a mine, he recalled.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Thursday, June 15 (Reuters) — Militants suspected of being members of the Tamil Tigers ambushed a civilian bus on Thursday and set off a mine, the army said, killing at least 58 people and injuring 45 in what is by far the worst attack since a 2002 cease-fire.

Ismail Mustafa Nabi, a 49-year-old farmer, lost his legs when he set off a mine as he was planting wheat 18 years ago.

We are 10 meters under the surface, and we've been working 24 hours by working eight-hour shifts… We have hit water... and once, we were discovered by the regime forces who set off a mine".

One of the soldiers who replaced them hit a trip wire, setting off a mine that had been placed in a tree so that it would detonate at face level.

It is three years into an unnamed civil war, and as a member of a unit of children trained by the rebels to use knives to defuse these unmapped mines laid by federal troops and rebels alike, My Luck has undergone what is considered routine surgery — his vocal cords severed so that if he sets off a mine he won't distract his fellow soldiers with his screaming.

Legend holds that the town site was discovered after a jackass belonging to Noah Kellogg kicked over a hunk of galena ore, setting off a mining rush.

In March 1968, the squad hit a tripwire in the jungle that set off a huge mine, sending body parts flying and shrapnel into Chuck Hagel's chest.

The guerrillas set off a land mine that blew up one of the stopped vehicles, and then they opened fire on those remaining.