In June, the Saudi mine action project in Yemen (pores) announced that it had cleared 1,839 mines, including 604 during the fourth week, bringing the total taken from the start of the project to 27 June to 74,115.
A statement issued by the «pores» on its website, that the curse of mines pursue the lives and limbs of Yemenis wherever they decide, as there is no farmer or student or even a child away from the repercussions of the Houthi coup, adding: «Houthi coup cast a shadow on the joints of life there, Where the Houthis robbed the hopes and dreams of the Yemeni people, and spoiled the future with tools of hatred and murder, after their inability to control the land and wealth and the steadfast Yemeni will, which supported the draft potholes in his presence in Yemen, to remove the thorns planted by the rebels on the paths of civilians who suffered from them.
"The Huthis did not leave a place but put their inhuman silence, which is a disaster on the population, killing them on the one hand, and impedes the exercise of their normal lives on the other, and those who survived the death did not survive the disability will continue to accompany him for life, Hundreds of civilians were permanently disabled and lost their feet and hands when landmines exploded. "
The project director, Osama al-Gosaibi, accompanied by the experts of the project, visited the field teams in the province of Shabwa, specifically the directorates of Asilan and Behan to see the progress of work and the problems and obstacles facing the teams, noting that work is underway to remove the tools of death planted With Iranian Houthi hands.
"The Huthi militias have planted mines indiscriminately to inflict the greatest number of casualties. Even after the liberation of the area from the Huthi presence, six mine-bombing vehicles were attacked, as well as 14 camels in the Wadi Zahba area," said the commander of the tenth team in the Behan district.
The head of the Shabwa technical survey team, Abdulla Salem Hassan, said that since the beginning of its work on 23 July 2018 until 24 June 2019, the team had surveyed 42 mined areas in Shabwa governorate, adding that thousands of mines and improvised explosive devices As directed by the project management, who is keen to destroy all that is being removed in order to ensure that it will not be used again by any party.
He added that the areas in Shabwa were classified according to the criteria, high impact areas and areas of medium impact, and low impact, pointing out that the residential areas were classified as high-impact areas, where the militias focused on the spoils of the corridors, roads, wells, schools and homes from which the engineering teams more than 700 mine.