News - Yemen: The Executive Center for Mine Action in Sa’adah governorate confirmed Friday that 3,941 citizens were killed and wounded by cluster bombs in the governorate since the beginning of the US-Saudi aggression.

The director of the center Colonel Ahmed Abu Khalba said in a statement to Almasirah, that 1037 citizens were killed, including 119 women and children.

He pointed out that the US-Saudi warplanes dropped 16 types of cluster bombs on Sa’adah governorate.

Colonel Abu Khalba said: "We do not have the detection devices for cluster bombs, and we face difficulties due to the lack of information from the manufacturing countries on how to get rid of them."

For his part, an awareness trainer for the center in Saada, Waddah Al-Sayedi, pointed out that Sa’adah Governorate is one of the most affected governorates by cluster bombs.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the claim of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power.

The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead, and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.

The victims of cluster bombs have reached more than 25,000 civilians since the beginning of the US-Saudi aggression on Yemen. The Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action, Brigadier General Ali Safra, has pointed out that the support and resources allocated to field clearance do not reach the level of 2% of what is required to be cleaned.

The director of the Executive Center for Mine Action Brigadier Ali Safra stated that Hodeidah, Al-Baidha'a, Marib, Al-Jawf, Nihm and Sa'ada are the most infested areas for mines and bombs, in which the aggression used the most deadly and latest military technology in the country.

He explained that the Center is continuing to work to clear areas contaminated and affected by the bombs and mines of the US-Saudi aggression, pointing out that mines and remnants - especially cluster bombs - have become a national issue and a societal problem that must be disposed.

The Executive Center for Mine Action announced the discovery of 544 mines and cluster bombs left over from the aggression during the first week of January 2022.

The Mine Center's field work is concentrated in dangerous areas and densely populated directorates. However, the UN's curtailment of its support programs and the coalition's prevention of the introduction of detectors raises the specter of death that threatens the lives of women and children.