An explosives team from the Navy attached to the battalion had assured him, he said, that they could find just about any antipersonnel mine buried in the hill.
Anti-Tank mines buried to the ground will damage any Metal Marine that walks on them.
The 100 million mines buried around the world will not disappear immediately, nor will the ban do much for an estimated 250,000 amputees.
There might be mines buried here.
The mines, buried in a road near Vavuniya, 140 miles north of Colombo, went off as the vehicles passed over them.
There are an estimated four million to six million mines buried in Cambodia.
It's all about blowing up the mines buried there before we get to them.
Red markers point out areas with unexploded mines from the Soviet occupation and the mujahedeen wars, buried in an area just southeast of the city.
This ensured mines buried under a dip in the ground would not be missed.
