South Korea: 2 soldiers injured by landmine explosion

South Korea's military said Monday that two soldiers were heavily injured a week ago by an explosion of anti-personnel landmines buried by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Maj. Gen. Koo Hong-mo, head of operations at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a press briefing that two South Korean soldiers were severely wounded by a detonation landmines which had been assuredly buried by the DPRK.

DPRK forces must have illegally violated the military demarcation line to intentionally bury PMD series mines, Koo said citing the result of on-site investigations jointly conducted by South Korea's Defense Ministry and the United Nations Command's military armistice commission.

Two staff sergeants of the First Infantry Division's search battalion, who were on a patrol duty in the morning on Aug. 4 on the South side of the demilitarized zone in the western land border, suffered heavy injury after explosion of landmines.