Project Masam has successfully removed and destroyed 1002 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and various unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s Bab Al-Mandab.
The operation carried out today (December 14) by Masam teams included the destruction of 453 anti-tank mines, 68 UXO, 453 miscellaneous fuses, eight IEDs, and 20 anti-personnel mines.
Engineer Adib Rajab, Deputy Team Leader of Masam’s Special Task Team in Aden and the Western coast, said that the number of explosives that were destroyed is the result of what the Masam teams have removed from the districts of Mawza, Al-Makha, Al-Khawkha, Al Wazi’iyah, and Hays during the past weeks.
