Reference : V-P-BA-E-00099
Date : 06/11/2013
Country/Region : BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
Caption : Doboj province, Cementary, Hodzici village. Two brothers, both landmine survivors, are praying on the graves of their brother, and the wife of the elder, both killed by landmines.
Photographer : DE VIGUERIE, Véronique
Keyword : GRAVE; MINE VICTIM; RELIGION
Confidentiality level : public
Publication restrictions : publication without restrictions
Copyright : Getty Images/CICR
Description : Doboj province is highly infested with landmines and Hodzici village where the two brothers live is surrounded by landmines fields.

In 1997, one of them got involved in two landmine accidents as he was cutting wood in the forest. In first he lost his horse and suffered stomach injuries and the second took his left leg.

He is accompanied by is brother who was badly injured and lost his wife in a landmine explosion in 2011.
Original material : digital
Resolution : 5760x3840
Orientation : landscape
Colour/B&W : colour

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