May. 02, 2024 11:15 AM EDT
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Double land mine blasts killed one person and wounded at least 18 on Thursday in Pakistan’s southwest, a police officer said.
The first mine exploded when a truck was passing through a valley in coal-rich Duki district in Baluchistan province. The second...
Apr. 22, 2024 07:25 AM EDT
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Two separate explosions from ordnance left over from Cambodia’s decades of warfare killed five people and injured two others, the head of the country’s demining agency said Monday.
Some 4 million to 6 million land mines and other unexploded munitions...
Apr. 01, 2024 21:30 PM EDT
ISLAMABAD (AP) — An old land mine found by children in eastern Afghanistan exploded while they were playing with it, killing nine children, a Taliban spokesman said Monday.
The mine, which the children found near their village in Gero district in Ghazni province, was from decades...
Mar. 01, 2024 13:25 PM EST
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An improvised explosive device killed at least four soldiers in what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday was a “trap” likely set by a drug cartel.
The soldiers were killed Thursday on the outskirts of the city of Aguililla in the embattled...