The teams of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center's (KSrelief) Masam Project working on the western coast were astonished to uncover substantial quantities of shells strategically placed by Houthi forces near Bab al-Mandab. This coincides with an international report that has placed Yemen as the eighth country with the highest casualties due to explosives, recording over 17,000 incidents. The Masam team, engaged in demining operations, expressed surprise at discovering more than 250 unexploded shells laid by the Houthis.
The project ran by King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) for clearing landmines in Yemen, MASAM, managed to remove 3,000 landmines, explosive devices, and unexploded ordnance in October. Osama Al-Gosaibi, the project director, said that the teams that have been working in more than 11 Yemeni provinces since June 2018 continue to discover more mines randomly planted by the Houthis after each truce. Al-Gosaibi added that planting mines by Houthis is accelerating and expanding in scope.
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