FILE PHOTO: Members of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina demine an area near river Bosna in the city Visoko, May 20, 2014. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - NATO and EUFOR, its European Union successor force in Bosnia, will hand over to the Bosnian authorities about 800 aerial shots made after a war in the 1990s to help detect and remove about 120,000 landmines still scattered across the Balkan country.
NATO, whose 60,000-strong force had kept peace in Bosnia after a U.S-brokered peace deal ended its conflict in 1995, took aerial shots of close to 50 locations where landmines or other explosive ordnance had been planted.
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