The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) project to clear mines in Yemen, MASAM, reported detonating 2,415 mines, explosive devices and unexploded ordnance in Bab al-Mandab directorate.
International expert from MASAM D.r Zawba al-Rawi confirmed that the operation included 400 anti-armor mines, 1500 shells and unexploded ordnance, 400 various fuses, in addition to 45 explosive devices and 70 anti-personnel mines.
This is the 18th operation for team 30 in the area, bringing the total number of operations carried out by the project in Yemen to 62.
Director-General of the MASAM project Ousama Al-Gosaibi announced that the teams cleared since the launch of the project until the 11th of June 169,434 mines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices. Last week, an area of 264,862 square meters was purified, he added, which brings the total since launching the project to 10,648,279 square meters.
Moreover, MASAM’s operation room announced that the project’s teams cleared during the second week of this month 1,279 mines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices, which brings the total of the period ranging between the 30th of May and the 11th of June to 2,131.
MASAM's Operation Manager Retief Horn said that the engineering teams cleared during the same period 1,036 unexploded ordnance and 3 explosive devices. He added that the teams cleared also 238 anti-tank mines and 2 anti-personnel mines.
In this context, a Yemeni was killed on Sunday by a landmine planted by Houthis in El Tor. The residents rushed to the site to rescue him but he had succumbed to his injury and passed away on spot.
