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The leader of team 18 Masam asserted that the clearing teams working in Qataba directorate are making huge efforts to protect civilians from the danger of landmines and explosive devices which were planted by the Houthi militias in most of the directorate’s vital regions.
Engineer Ahmad Alradfani said in an exclusive interview with Masam’s media office that his team, and since it was assigned by Masam’s management to go to Qataba, was able to secure many regions, residential villages and the roads leading to them, most notably the villages of Shakhab, Alrabibi, Algafla and Bahjah.
Alradfani noted that the inhabitants of the residential villages were displaced because of the landmines, and Masam’s teams were able to bring them back to their villages and homes after they fully secured them from the landmines.
Alradfani added that Masam’s teams are working now to secure civilians’ farms, and it is a difficult mission because there are a lots of them and they take the shape of plains and valleys.
Alradfani said that his team was able since it started its mission with Masam project to clear more than 1700 anti-personnel landmines, 500 of them were cleared from the villages of Qataba directorate, and the team was also able to destroy 100 explosive devices.
Alradfani noted that his team is especially working on clearing and destroying anti-personnel landmines because they are the most dangerous on civilians, and they were planted in purpose by the Houthis in the villages’ entrances, between the houses and in the sides of major and minor roads.
This came during a visit led by the experts of Masam’s Operations in Aden and the western coast to Masam’s clearing teams working in Ad Dali province. The experts’ visit included teams 27, 8 and 18 Masam which work in the villages and regions of Qataba directorate.