The Saudi project “Masam” for mine clearance in Yemen announced, in a statement yesterday, Sunday, December 31, 2023, the total number of mines, explosive devices, and unexploded ordnance that its field teams removed from several Yemeni regions during the month of December 2023.

The project stated, in its statement, that its demining teams removed 3,015 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices as of December 29, 2023, indicating that last week the teams removed 719 landmines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices, including 615 unexploded ordnance and 102 An anti-tank mine and two anti-personnel mines, and the teams cleared 279,594 square meters during the same week.

Since the beginning of the month, the Masam Project demining team has removed 2,525 unexploded ordnance and 444 anti-tank mines, while the rest of the toll varied between anti-personnel mines and explosive devices, which were removed from an area of ​​822,725 square meters of Yemeni territory.

In the total outcome since the start of the project, Masam Project announced the neutralization and destruction of 426,809 explosive devices in the liberated Yemeni areas, including 6,444 anti-personnel mines, 142,557 anti-tank mines, 269,865 unexploded ordnance, and 7,943 explosive devices. An improvised explosive device has been neutralized on an area of ​​52,866,740 square meters of land since mid-2018.