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Showing posts with label Europe - Bosnia. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 18, 2014

DOZENS OF FATALITIES IN WORST EVER BALKAN FLOODING - DISASTER CREATES LAND MINE RISKS

Photo Tanjug, Twitter - Russia Today
DAILY MAIL - Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Record-high floods and landslides have swept away people, homes and roads in the Balkans over the past week, but in Bosnia another deadly menace is hiding in the flood rubble: land mines. 
 
Authorities have spent two decades trying to unearth the 1 million land mines planted during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Before the floods, nearly 120,000 remained in 9,416 marked minefields.  Then floods washed away river banks and fueled landslides that have unearthed minefield warning signs and, in many cases, the unexploded booby traps themselves.