Landmine explosion in BiH claims life of civilian decades after Bosnian war


SARAJEVO, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Smajo Zenicanin, a 48-year civilian national of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), has been killed in a landmine explosion in a marked minefield near Doboj, 150 km north of the capital Sarajevo, the state-owned news agency SRNA reported on Tuesday.

Zenicanin became the country's 619th casualty of landmines and explosive devices left over after the Bosnian war that ended in 1995, according to the count of the national Mine Action Centre (MAC).

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