Project Masam has successfully removed and destroyed 1,526 landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and various unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate.
The destruction operation, in Bab al-Mandeb district, included 416 anti-tank mines, 46 UXO, 416 assorted fuses, and 648 assorted bullets.
Engineer Adeeb Rajab, deputy commander of the task force for the Aden sector and the western coast, said that the amount of landmines that were destroyed by the task force for the Aden sector and the western coast is the outcome of what Masam’s teams were able to remove from the districts of Mawza, Al-Mokha, Al-Khokha, Al Wazi’iyah, and Hais, during the past weeks.
He pointed out that the number of landmines, explosive devices, and other remnants of war that were destroyed on 23 November posed a direct threat to the lives of civilians in all areas of the West Coast.
