Yemen army removes over 30,000 mines
A recent Yemeni human rights report said 47 civilians were killed in Marib while 98 others were injured by these mines
Yemeni army source said they removed 36,000 landmines which Houthi militias and forces loyal to deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh had planted in the Marib province.
Brigadier General Sheikh Zayd Thabet, chief of the military engineering unit in the national army, told reporters that thousands of the mines they found date back to the era of World War II, in addition to other Russian and Iranian-made mines and locally-produced mines, adding that they have so far destroyed 6,500 mines.
A recent Yemeni human rights report said 47 civilians were killed in Marib while 98 others were injured by these mines.
alarabiya
Popular resistance sources had said Houthi militias and forces loyal to Saleh have planted more than 40,000 mines in different areas in Taiz since March 2015. Human Rights Watch said in a report that 23 people were killed and 56 others were injured in Taiz by these mines.
Official sources in al-Jawf province had said that the rebels planted more than 30,000 mines in the province.
*This article can be viewed in Arabic on AlArabiya.net
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