1.   Two were hit by shrapnel from a mortar bomb at the weekend.

2.   He was hit by shrapnel from a grenade.

3.   At the same time Aubuchon praised the military for saving the life of a journalist who was bleeding badly when her leg was hit by shrapnel in Afghanistan.

4.   A young goatherd hit by shrapnel had to be hospitalized.

5.   Half of his face was covered by a prayer shawl to shield his left eye, which was hit by shrapnel.

6.   He was fatally hit by shrapnel fragments, his body knocked into the blue waters.

7.   People can inhale the depleted uranium dust or be hit by shrapnel.

8.   Sayeed Muhammad said he jumped through the back window along with other men and a bullet or shrapnel hit him in the foot.

9.   Russian television quoted doctors on the scene as saying that most of the dead and injured had either lost limbs or been hit by shrapnel.

10.   Shah was working in a field in his village of Tareen Coat in the Uruzghan province of southern Afghanistan when he was hit by shrapnel from a bomb.