SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Two men were killed in southeastern Bosnia while clearing a minefield left from the 1992-95 war, the mine clearing agency said Wednesday.
The Bosnian Mine Action Center did not identify the victims, but said the two men were killed on Tuesday when a land mine they were trying to defuse near the town of Trebinje exploded.
They were working on a project to clear some 27,640 square meters (yards) near a cemetery. An investigation is under way, the organization said.
Hundreds of thousands of land mines remain hidden throughout the country, one of the most heavily mined in the world. After the war, documentation was collected on the location of some 350,000 mines, but NATO experts said this represents only one-third of the total number laid during the war.
The Mine Action Center said 34 Bosnians have been fatally injured in mine clearance operations since the end of the war.