Accidental mines explosion kills 5 Saudi-hired foreign mine experts in Yemen

Five foreign nationals working as mine clearance experts for the Saudi-led military coalition have been killed in a mine defusing operation in war-torn Yemen.

According to a report by the official Saudi Press Agency, SPA, on Monday, the experts – two from South Africa, one from Croatia, one from Bosnia and one from Kosovo – were killed in the central province of Ma'rib a day earlier in an accidental explosion when they were transporting extracted mines and explosives to be destroyed.

The report alleged that the mines and explosives had been planted by fighters of Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, which, alongside the Yemeni army, has been defending the impoverished nation against a Saudi-imposed war over the past nearly four years.

The foreign nationals were all working for a Saudi demining program in Yemen, known as Masam Project, and were killed in a huge blast taken place due to the suspected miscarriage of a large number of mines and explosives in their vehicle as the team was on route from the project’s headquarters in the provincial capital of the same name to a remote locality for safe destruction, it added.

Separately, Ousama Algosaibi, the managing director of Masam, in a posting on Twitter on Monday confirmed the explosion. Furthermore, the so-called King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, KSRelief, also confirmed that the foreign “demining experts” were killed in the incident. The Masam Project is a part of the KSRelief.

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With the war drawn into a deadlock, Saudi Arabia is virtually mired in a quagmire, having faced repeated military backlashes in Yemen and reprisal attacks inside its own territories.

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