46 Citizens Killed, Injured by US-Saudi remnants of Cluster Bombs, Mines

The Executive Center for Mine Action confirmed in a statistic for February, 2023 that 46 citizens were killed and injured by the US-Saudi aggression explosive remnants in the governorates of Hodeidah, Hajjah, Lahj, Sa’adah, Al-Jawf, Al-Baidha, and Marib.

The Executive Center for Mine Action stated that 12 citizens were killed and 34 others were injured by the remnants of the aggression.

Many areas in Yemen’s governorates have been bombarded by US-Saudi aggression with cluster bombs, while many of those internationally prohibited bombs are still scattered among farms and roads, and their victims are in the dozens.

The victims of cluster bombs have reached more than 25,000 civilians since the beginning of the US-Saudi aggression on Yemen.

The landmines and other remnants of the forces of aggression that they planted during their occupation, still pose a threat to the residents of many areas of the districts, especially farms and roads.

Earlier, the center confirmed in a statistic for January, 2023 that 30 citizens were killed and injured by the US-Saudi aggression explosive remnants in the governorates of Hodeidah, Al-Jawf, Sa’adah, Sana’a, and the Nehm district.

It stated that 14 citizens were killed and 16 others were injured by the remnants of the aggression.

The center expressed its strong condemnation of these tragedies came in light of international silence about the crime of the US-Saudi aggression by preventing the entry of mine detectors, which represents an obstruction of humanitarian work, and deliberate harm to the largest number of Yemenis.

In official statistics, 2,500 cluster, destructive, phosphorous and piercing bomb raids targeted nine governorates in Yemen, foremost among which were US bombs like the CBU-87, British bombs like the BL755 and the Brazilian ASTROS II bombs.

Each of these weapons has its own properties and high impacts on humans and the environment, which remain life threatening for a long period of time. This shows the scale of the disaster that befell Yemen as a result of these US, British and other weapons.

The US-Saudi aggression refuses to enter equipment and devices to detect explosives in light of the silence of the United Nations, which bears the greatest responsibility for the continued casualties due to the remnants of the aggression, including mines and cluster bombs.