51.   Officials did not clarify whether the tank hit a mine or the bomb was triggered by remote control.

52.   Officials have also considered the possibility that the Kursk hit a mine.

53.   One bulldozer hit the mine, which apparently lay beneath the ruins.

54.   One more Russian was killed and four were wounded when their armored personnel carrier hit a mine near the village of Tsotsan-Yurt in the Vedeno district.

55.   One child and nine adults were killed when a bus evacuating refugees from southern Grozny hit a mine, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday.

56.   Six of the troops died when the armored personnel carrier they were riding hit a mine planted under the roadway in a suburb of Grozny.

57.   Ten soldiers were wounded when their vehicle hit a mine laid by Kurdish guerrillas near this southern city on Tuesday, the Anatolia news agency said.

58.   The Afghan forces were traveling in a three-vehicle convoy late Friday when they hit the mine northeast of the air base, Roper said.

59.   Ten other servicemen were injured when a railway-inspection trolley hit a mine, the agency said, citing military headquarters.

60.   The car was traveling on a nearby, unauthorized route when it hit the mine.