Engineer Ahmed Mohammed Saeed Ali, a member of team 26 at MASAM, said that his team has so far collected more than 40,000 unexploded ordnance in Mocha.
The engineering teams of the Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance removed 1,616 mines and unexploded ordnance during the fourth week of January. This brings the total from the beginning of the month until the 23rd to 5,757.
As the total of cleared mines, explosive devices, and unexploded ordnance since the project kicked off amounts to 125,902.
MASAM operations are not restricted to removing mines but also collecting unexploded ordnance turned by Houthis to explosive devices often used to wreck bridges and houses.
Ali added that the project is currently working on a landmine field spanning more than 22,000 square meters. Work is ongoing to clear this location given that it is an agricultural zone and thus puts the lives of civilians in jeopardy.
So far up to 70 percent of the field was secured and a total of 150 landmines were removed, he added, expressing gratitude and appreciation to MASAM’s administration for material and logistic support.
