31.   One person also was wounded and one was missing in the explosions, which were the first time anti-tank mines had been used in the center of Bujumburu.

32.   Sihanouk met with a group of delegates, signed a petition against land mines and appealed to the Khmer Rouge to stop using mines and make peace.

33.   The Pentagon unequivocally denied using anti-personnel mines, and Defense Secretary William Cohen reiterated the denial.

34.   The Soviet Union used the mines but they are now shut down and guarded by Russian troops, Dzhemal said.

35.   Gander, an active supporter of humanitarian demining, said that some states have no choice but to use mines for their defence.

36.   He said within hours the Tigers retaliated in the same district, ambushing a crowded military bus using a mine, though the blast narrowly missed the bus.

37.   A Correctional Services spokesman later told SAPA the idea of using disused mines also included making use of existing infrastructures such as old mine buildings.

38.   Chechen rebels regularly use mines to hit Russian army convoys.

39.   Withing hours, the Tigers retaliated in the same district, ambushing a crowded military bus using a mine.

40.   Last week Germany announced its army would no longer use anti-personnel mines and said it would destroy more than a million of the devices.