Somalia: 3 militants killed by land mine EL-BUR, Somalia, May 10 (UPI) -- Witnesses said three al-Shabaab militants were killed when they accidentally detonated a land mine near El-Bur, Somalia, Thursday morning The three militants were trying to place the land mine just outside of El-Bur when they accidentally detonated it, the Sabelle Media Network said. "We heard the blast early on Thursday morning an area not far away form El-Bur, where al-Shabaab militants wanted to place in the ground a land mine, but it detonated ... and killed three of them," a witness told the Sabelle Media Network.