"On impact, the mine leaps one meter (3 ft) into the air and explodes, sending out hundreds of small metal shards in every direction. It has a 'lethal radius' of 25 meters and can cause wounds up to 300 meters away.

'It punctures your organs in a hundred places, the victim then generally goes into shock and dies a slow, painful death'"

There are still millions of mines in the ground of Northern Iraq.