Floods cause dangerous minefield movement in Bosnia
Floods in Bosnia have activated landslides, causing some minefields to move, and currently it is not know where they are located, daily Nezavisne Novine writes.
Saturday, 26.06.2010.
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Floods in Bosnia have activated landslides, causing some minefields to move, and currently it is not know where they are located, daily Nezavisne Novine writes. Bosnia-Herzegovina Center for Mines Chief Antun Sinkovic said that most of the mines were set on the shores of the river during the war, therefore, it was obvious that an erosion of the land would send the mines into movement. Floods cause dangerous minefield movement in Bosnia “The most endangered regions are around the rivers that have flooded over the last days…where there were conflicts during the war and where mines were placed,” Sinkovic said. He said that there are about 2,300 square meters of area that need to be demined in these regions. “The problem is that the water carries the ground and everything on it, so the mines stop somewhere and remain covered in soil, and not even the detectors can uncover them. Detectors do not work when the soil is too deep, for example, under half a meter of soil,” Sinkovic said. “It is hard to give advice to the people who live there, because there is no clearly defined way to avoid the mines. The best idea is to avoid all areas that have warnings of existing mines, and the areas that were flooded,” he said. There were a total of 140 landslides that were activated during the floods in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Floods in Banja Luka (Tanjug archive)
Floods cause dangerous minefield movement in Bosnia
“The most endangered regions are around the rivers that have flooded over the last days…where there were conflicts during the war and where mines were placed,” Sinković said.He said that there are about 2,300 square meters of area that need to be demined in these regions.
“The problem is that the water carries the ground and everything on it, so the mines stop somewhere and remain covered in soil, and not even the detectors can uncover them. Detectors do not work when the soil is too deep, for example, under half a meter of soil,” Sinković said.
“It is hard to give advice to the people who live there, because there is no clearly defined way to avoid the mines. The best idea is to avoid all areas that have warnings of existing mines, and the areas that were flooded,” he said.
There were a total of 140 landslides that were activated during the floods in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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