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Balkans' Worst Flooding in Years Is Unearthing Thousands of Landmines

Dennis Mersereau · 05/19/14 02:13PM

Up to a foot of rain fell across parts of the Balkans this weekend, creating the worst flooding the region has seen in centuries. As if that's not bad enough, the flooding and landslides are unearthing some of the hundreds of thousands of landmines planted in the ground during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.