A 6-year-old is treated at Kosava Hospital, Sarajevo. His left foot has been amputated and he has extensive injuries and multiple fractures to his right leg. In the explosion he and two other children were injured and a woman was killed.

MINE BLOWN!

At the invitation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, TEPA was the first agency to investigate the scale of the landmine crisis unfolding in peace-time Bosnia.

In 1996, only months after the Dayton Peace Accord was signed by the warring ex-Yugoslavian factions, a surge in numbers of landmine casualties, especially amongst children, led to fears that a peacetime catastrophe was imminent.

Estimates suggested that between 3 and 6 million landmines had been laid throughout Bosnia, often in densely populated areas. As indiscriminate weapons of terror and intimidation they lay in wait in sports and play grounds, schools and gardens. Made almost entirely of plastic and virtually undetectable, many of these devices were tiny, the size of an inkpot, packed with enough explosive to mutilate an adult or kill a child.

Buried with just the star-shaped detonator protruding above ground, with 100g of TNT, ‘minimum metal’ plastic "ink pot" or PMA2 anti-personnel mines are very common and virtually undetectable.

A 15-year-old from Dobrinja on the outskirts of Sarajevo with his father. He stepped on a buried mine near the airport, . His right hand was injured and left foot amputated.

A landmine explosion at the football stadium, whose lights can be seen in the background, caused this 11-year-old extensive damage to his right leg. His best friend was killed instantly. This window in a shattered house is as near as he will return to the scene of the incident.

A 10-year-old from near the village of Travnik was injured by a landmine and her left leg was amputated above the knee. Her prosthesis had broken twice and needed to be changed at least once every year to allow for growth.

For the first time, after 4 years confined to their homes, two 15-year-olds venture out on bicycles near their home in Grbavica, Sarajevo, just 200m from the front line. Mines, booby traps and unexploded bombs, like these rifle grenades, litter the devastated area.

A group of friends display a PMR2 or "corn" mine they have found. Boys are particularly vulnerable to peer bravado - a male dynamic with lethal consequences.

A devastated street near the front line in Grbavica, Sarajevo - a "no go" area due to mines, booby traps and unexploded bombs.

An orthopaedic technician working with amputees on behalf of HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL at Bihac Hospital. His store room held prostheses for all ages and sizes including children, like this one for an 8-year-old.

A 17-year-old is fitted with his first prosthesis at Handicap International Clinic at Bihac Hospital. He and two friends jumped into a hole to escape gunfire. Both friends were killed instantly by a mine explosion and his leg was too damaged to save.

Mine warning signs and unexploded bombs litter footpaths in devastated areas on the outskirts of Sarajevo. The whole region, including houses and gardens abandoned during the war, had been booby trapped and mined.

Common antipersonnel mines found in former Yugoslavia.

An RNAF EOD officer deactivates a roadside TRMP6 anti-tank mine which contains around 5kg of TNT near the village of Turbe in central Bosnia.

One of a series of drawings by young children at Bosansca Krupa Elementary School. "It will take the children a long time to forget scenes like these," said their headteacher.