Five killed clearing Houthi landmines

A team of explosive safety experts in Yemen have been killed by a consignment of Houthi land mines that blew up while they were being transported to be destroyed. The five technicians — two from South Africa, one from Croatia, one from Bosnia and one from Kosovo — were part of the Saudi de-mining program in Yemen, known as Masam Project.

Its aim is to locate and destroy explosive devices illegally planted by Iranian-backed Houthi militias. The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief ) said on Monday that the five experts had died in the explosion in Marib governorate early on Sunday.