(MENAFN- AzerNews)
By Vugar Khalilov
The Azerbaijani Mine Action Agency (ANAMA) defused 457 mines and
unexploded ordnances in the liberated territories from September
19-24, Azernews reports, citing the agency.
During the demining operations, the agency discovered 46
anti-personnel, 144 anti-tank mines, and 267 unexploded ordnances
in Tartar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Shusha, Gubadli, Jabrayil, and Zangilan
districts, the report added.
A 457-ha-area was cleared of mines and unexploded ordnances
during the reported period.
Likewise , the Azerbaijani army's
engineer-sapper units have neutralized nearly 380 mines in
liberated Kalbajar District, Azernews reports, citing the Defense
Ministry.
On September 24-25, 370 PMN-E anti-personnel, as well as 9 TM-62
anti-tank mines were discovered and neutralized in Kalbajar's
Alagollar area and other directions as a result of demining
activities, the ministry said.
The engineer-sapper units continue to remove mines from
liberated territories, as well as the army's supply roads.
Engineering support initiatives are underway in the liberated
lands, it added.
Five booby traps consisting of Armenian-made PMN-E
anti-personnel mines and laid by Armenian military formations in
the direction of Khojaly District were detected, the ministry
reported earlier.
Similarly, 90 E-001 M type anti-personnel mines, made in Armenia
in 2021, were found and neutralized in the ravine gap of the Boyuk
Ishigli Mount in Lachin District on September 20 as a result of
demining activities carried out by the sappers.
Armenia spared no effort to plant land mines on Azerbaijani
territory, not only during the 30 years of occupation but also just
before days of leaving Azerbaijani lands as envisaged in the
trilateral statement in order to cause human casualties.
Rarely a day goes by without news of civilians or military
personnel being injured or killed as a result of mine explosions in
Azerbaijan's liberated lands.
Armenia deliberately and constantly planted mines on Azerbaijani
territories, in violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention, thereby
being a major threat to regional peace, security, and
cooperation.
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