JEDDAH: The Masam Project for landmine clearance in Yemen cleared 1,681 mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance in the coastal city of Mukalla, Masam said in a statement.
The operation was carried out by Masam’s emergency teams in coordination with the Executive Mine Action Center’s Mukalla branch.
According to the project’s media office, the destroyed items included nine M79 guided rockets and five 122 mm artillery shells. Other items destroyed included 18 85 mm shells, 187 30 mm shells, 16 81 mm mortar rounds, 98 60 mm mortar rounds, 86 40 mm shells, 12 anti-personnel mines, 12 82 mm mortar rounds, 262 23 mm shells, three B-10 rounds, 28 RPG rounds and 17 hand grenades.
The teams also dismantled 30 anti-tank mine fuses, 107 Katyusha rocket fuses and 791 rounds of 12.7 mm ammunition.
The center said that the operation was the fifth of its kind carried out in Mukalla, in Hadramout governorate, since mid-January.
