The following is a near verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
**Bosnia/Herzegovina
Yesterday in Bosnia and Herzegovina, two deminers who worked for the Mine Action Centre and a local Serb police officer were killed when an antipersonnel mine exploded in Rogatica, about 70 kilometres east of Sarajevo. The deminers had been trying to clear the bodies of two fishermen who had been killed in a mine accident in the same area on 14 August, and were sweeping a minefield when the incident occurred. Of the two mineworkers who were killed, one was Swedish and one was Serb.
Police from the United Nations Mission's International Police Task Force, as well as officers of the Stabilization Force (SFOR) were present at the area following the explosion, and local police secured the area.
There were an estimated 1 million mines laid in Bosnia during the war in some 19,000 mine fields.
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