CHITA, April 30. /ITAR-TASS/. Three sappers were wounded during combat engineer reconnaissance on an area adjacent to the village of Bolshaya Tura in East Siberia’s Trans-Baikal Territory when a mine exploded at about 13:15 Moscow Time (09:15 GMT), the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
Ministry spokesman Maj.-Gen. Igor Konashenkov told ITAR-TASS that the mine exploded because a civilian truck hit it.
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