At least one person has died,
three are known to have been injured and several more are missing following a
landslide at Kakanj in cerntral Bosnia-Herzegovina. The incident happened early
in the morning of Monday 5 January 2015, when a section of hillside with seven
homes on it slide about 500 m downslope. The confirmed death is said to be of an adult woman and several children are reported to be
among the missing and injured.
The approximate location of the 5 January 2015 Kakanj landslide.
The houses destroyed by the
landslip are understood to have been built in the aftermath of the civil war
following the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and like many such
homes to have been built by the occupiers without any formal permission. Local
authorities had apparently previously raised concerns about these particular
properties, which were located on the site of a former coal mine, which closed
about 50 years ago, leading to concerns about the stability of the ground.
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