In Croatia, 1,147 square kilometres of land are suspected of being infested with mines. The 'suspicious' zones are in 12 out of 21 counties in which one quarter of the country's population lives.
A part of campaign aimed at raising the awareness of mine dangers is a plan to build 35 playing grounds in settlements and residential blocks near the suspicious areas so as to prevent children from going to the mine-infested zones.
In 2005, four Croatians were killed and nine wounded in blasts of mines and booby traps, which were left after the Homeland Defence War in the first half of 1990s.
From 1991 to date, 430 people (including civilians and mine removal specialists on duty) died and 1349 were wounded in mine explosions in Croatia.