31.   One policeman was killed and seven others wounded Monday when a mine exploded during a routine training exercise, the state news agency HINA reported.

32.   Police said the mines exploded when the commandos drove over them.

33.   Portuguese Capt. Francisco Gustavo Leite Bastos suffered serious injuries to his right hand when a mine exploded while he was inspecting explosives near Gorazde in eastern Bosnia.

34.   Remote-control mines explode around the city.

35.   Thai television reported that the border patrol was investigating a reported incursion near the northeastern town of Tha Song Yang when the mine exploded Friday.

36.   The flails have a protective shield to protect the operator when a mine explodes.

37.   The mine exploded Thursday because the two soldiers, both border guard lieutenants, failed to handle it properly, the border guard press service said.

38.   The most recent victims were two young brothers killed Wednesday when a mine exploded under their feet.

39.   The mine exploded as the boys tried to dismantle it, ITAR-Tass said.

40.   The mine exploded in Kondavil, a town in the northern Jaffna Peninsula, the military reported.