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Parts of North Korean landmines apparently churned up by torrential rains have washed up across the border in South Korea<\/strong>, prompting a search by the military for more mines, the defense ministry said.<\/p>\n

Two wooden shells of North Korean landmines were found<\/strong> Thursday in a water-harvesting cistern near Hantan River at Cheolwon County, just south of the inter-Korean border, it said.<\/p>\n

“They were just empty wooden shells of landmines.<\/strong> They have no explosives and detonators inside. We assume they might have been washed away,” a spokesman for the defence ministry told AFP on Saturday.<\/p>\n

They have put up banners and handed out leaflets to warn holidaymakers in the area of the possibility of stray mines<\/strong> and asked them to report anything suspicious to authorities, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

North Korean mines have been carried south by floods and landslides in the past.<\/strong> Last year, dozens of wood-cased mines washed up in the south after heavy rains, killing one South Korean and injuring another.<\/p>\n

A landslide triggered by this week’s torrential rains also dislodged mines planted decades ago in Mount Umyeon in southern Seoul.<\/strong> Soldiers said they were still looking for about 10 mines there.<\/p>\n

South Korea planted 1,000 landmines on Mount Umyeon in the 1980s to protect an military installation there.<\/strong> Most were removed between 1999 and 2006, but a few remain unaccounted for.<\/p>\n

Heavy rains have pounded the Korean peninsula over the past week<\/strong>, killing at least 59 people and leaving thousands homeless in the South alone.<\/p>\n

According to a preliminary tally, in the North, 88,223 acres of rice paddies were inundated, while thousands of homes and hundreds of workplaces were destroyed, along with schools and public buildings, KCNA said.<\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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