Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will deploy drones to examine mine fields in flooded areas in a bid to find relocated mines during the flooding.

A team of BiH Mine Action Center (BHMAC) will conduct surveillance over mine fields, supported by several Belgian experts who will arrive in BiH on Friday.

Assistant Director of BHMAC Ahdin Orahovac said helicopter drones would be used to monitor the mine fields, local media reported.

Those drones, equipped with cameras, fly at an altitude of 5-10 meters and take images of the mine areas. Images sent by the drones enable the recognition of objects larger than 1 centimeter.

Experts will use the images and other information to identify the new areas with relocated mines during the flooding.

Some mine fields in BiH were hit with heavy rain and landslides during the flooding last week, raising concerns that some mines may be carried into rivers, even residence zone.

There are some 120,000 mines in BiH, left from the Bosnian War in the 1990s.