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Another man, a member of a unit sent in to bring out the bodies, was killed by a pressure mine Tuesday morning.

There was a pressure mine here under the paving.

These techniques are the only publicly known to be employed way to sweep pressure mines.

A new system is being introduced for sweeping pressure mines, however counters are going to remain a problem.

- Powerful pressure mine found in south.

Them we've checked, more or less, for pressure mines in the suspension housings and limpets on the gas tanks.

Isis is skilled at laying minefields full of pressure mines and booby traps.

Their mine codenamed MX, was soon in service, and the group turned its attention to developing acoustic or pressure mines.

Smaller pressure mines have sensor wires extending from them, so that the mine explodes a few feet from the person who stepped on the sensor.

A mine could be moored; it could be acoustic, magnetic or, most difficult of all to combat, a pressure mine.

The Consul glanced ahead toward the deadlines, interdiction fields, containment fields, and probable pressure mines that the skimmer would encounter in ten seconds.

Now, a disappointed MSHA Director Joe Main says it's time to start pressuring mine operators and manufacturers to speed up installation.

On May 27, three LTTE pressure mines killed seven local tourists, including novelist Nihal de Silva, in the Wilpattu National Park.

The group was issued with the latest German pressure mines charged with the new Hexogen explosive just when the tide had turned in the Allied battle up the spine of Italy.

He had been decorated by the English and the Americans for this exploit and had been awarded 10,000 from special funds for his presentation to the Allies of the pressure mine.

Unlike pressure mines that detonate under the circumstance of water displacement caused by the hull of a ship, acoustic mines have a set range that is determined before it is laid.

These including a wired plastic ice-cream cone, a detergent bottle, homemade wooden pressure mines and a fruit jar filled with beans that would expand and set off a detonator when water was added.

There are large pressure mines buried under roads on which trucks travel, and smaller pressure mines, about the size of pipe-tobacco tins, just under the surface of walking trails.

Had the enemy possessed large numbers of magnetic, acoustic and pressure mines, the west coast would indeed have been a dangerous place for the blockade forces, especially in the early months of the war when minesweepers were virtually unobtainable.

Not only had the PLGA cadres laid IEDs and pressure mines along the road that would lead to the Alpha company camp, they had also set up machine guns at tactically sound positions.

Divers searching the Undersee Hafen had reported a sighting of what appeared to be a new form of mine and, on 8 May, Gosse dived and verified that it was a G.D. pressure mine known as the 'oyster'.

Truman pressured mine owners into signing a contract in which they would pay for a union Welfare and Retirement Fund -- hospital, medical, and retirement plans -- all financed by a royalty assessed on the amount of coal extracted by union workers.

The frigate’s job is to find German ships, direct the MTBs toward them, then back up the MTBs’ attack with its heavy armament, but the liaison officer’s first order is to watch out for a new kind of German pressure mine responsible for many recent sinkings.

One killed in mine blast (Sunday Times ; 17 Feb 2002) - One person was killed and two were injured in the Ariyalai area of Jaffna when a tractor in which they were travelling was caught in a pressure mine explosion, residents said.

They were intended to be towed through minefields that used pressure mines, creating a pressure wave that would detonate the mines; the open lattice construction of the ships would, according to the design, allow the blast to pass through the vessel without causing damage to it.