{"id":51328,"date":"2019-11-20T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51328"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:24:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T05:24:45","slug":"thousands-of-houthi-laid-landmines-detonated-in-western-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51328","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Of Houthi-Laid Landmines Detonated In Western Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ADEN, Nov 20 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; Thousands of landmines laid by the Houthi rebels were detonated by explosives experts, in Yemen&#8217;s western coast area on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nearly 6,325 mines and explosives were detonated, by a team of the Saudi Landmine Clearance Project, in the country&#8217;s western coast area,&#8221; a military official said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detonating the dismantled Houthi-laid mines came, after coordination with the Saudi-led Arab coalition and the Yemeni government, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts of the Saudi mine-clearing project are still continuing their operations, along Yemen&#8217;s western coast areas and in Hodeidah, the official noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Large swathes of Yemen have been swamped by randomly-planted landmines, posing a lingering threat to the lives of citizens across the war-torn country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the UN, thousands of landmines, un-exploded ordnance and other explosive war remnants have been left behind, during the ongoing conflict in Yemen, which has entered its fifth year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of a 40-million-U.S.-dollar initiative, launched by Saudi Arabia, the project aims to remove mines left by Houthi militias, and equip the Yemeni specialists with the skills and resources necessary to clear landmines.&#8211; NNN-SABA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADEN, Nov 20 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; Thousands of landmines laid by the Houthi rebels were detonated by explosives experts, in Yemen&#8217;s western coast area on Tuesday. &#8220;Nearly 6,325 mines and explosives were detonated, by a team of the Saudi Landmine Clearance Project, in the country&#8217;s western coast area,&#8221; a military official said. Detonating the dismantled Houthi-laid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,198,217,194,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}