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Colonel Aref Al Qahtani, the Supervisor of Masam’s clearing teams in Taiz indicated in an exclusive interview with Masam’s media office that the Houthis’ landmines and explosive devices killed and injured more than 800 civilians in Muazza’a and Al Wazi’iya directorates, noting that teams 22 and 23 Masam which work in those directorates were able since the beginning of their mission to clear more than 16 thousand landmines, explosive devices and unexploded ordnance from 30 fields and mined areas.
Al Qahtani added that all the regions that were secured by the two teams are high impact areas because they are mainly residential and agricultural.
Al Qahtani indicated that Muazza’a and Al Wazi’iya were free of population because of the war, and that civilians could return to them only months after the deployment of Masam’s clearing teams there, and securing them from the danger of landmines which turned the farms, schools and residential areas into death fields that lurk for civilians.
Al Qahtani noted also that the Houthis changed the technical aspects of landmines, as they turned anti-armor landmines into anti-personnel landmines to kill civilians, with the aim to kill them by the score.
Colonel Aref Al Qahtani, the Supervisor of Masam’s clearing teams in Taiz said that project Masam has become the closest friend of the inhabitants of Muazza’a and Al Wazi’iya directorates, and that children, farmers and students and residents of these areas consider Masam’s landmine clearers as life savers and their only hope to live in security.