ZAGREB, January 21, 2019 - Five international mine removal specialists, including one Croatian, were killed on Sunday by an accidental explosion in Yemen while transporting mines and explosives to be destroyed, foreign media outlets reported on Monday.
The MASAM Demining Project says Monday that two South Africans, a Croatian, a Bosnian and a Kosovar were killed a day earlier while transporting the material in the central Marib province to a remote location where it could be safely detonated. It says a British national was wounded.
The project, part of the Saudi King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, began last year and seeks to remove unexploded ordnance from Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been at war with Iran-aligned Houthi rebels since 2015.
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