• landmines

Each year landmines kill and maim an estimated 26 000 people worldwide.¹ About 10%–40% of these victims are children, most of whom are affected long after the cessation of hostilities.^2,3 These deaths and injuries are potentially preventable but planning measures are hampered by the lack of data on determinants of landmine injuries in children; consequently mine awareness programmes for children are routinely designed using adult data.⁴ To overcome this gap, we have studied the determinants of landmine related injuries in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1991–2000, and compared children with adults.