Latest Land mines News
Cambodia's legacy of war remains deadly as 5 are killed by unexploded ordnance over the weekend
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...
An old land mine found by children near an Afghanistan village explodes, killing 9
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...
4 soldiers killed in 'trap' in central Mexico, president says
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...
