Azerbaijan Updates Mine Clearing Progress In Liberated Territories
Date
10/21/2024 6:12:32 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 21. The Azerbaijan
National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) has found and defused an
additional plethora of mines and unexploded ordnances in the
country's liberated territories placed by Armenian forces, a source
in ANAMA told Trend .
The source said that 141 anti-personnel and 64 anti-tank mines,
as well as 625 unexploded ordnances, were found and defused in
Tartar, Aghdam, Aghdara, Lachin, Fuzuli, Shusha, Khojaly,
Khankendi, Kalbajar, Khojavand, Jabrayil, Gubadli, and Zangilan on
October 14-20.
According to the source, 470.2 hectares of land have been
cleared of mines in the reporting period.
Following the liberation of its lands, Azerbaijan began
operations in November 2020 to clean its lands of mines, booby
traps, and other weaponry left behind by illegal Armenian
forces.
From 2020 to the present, 379 people have been killed by mines
in Eastern Zangezur and Karabakh, with 70 dead and 309 injured.
Meanwhile, 161,000 hectares have been cleared of mines in these
regions, with 157,000 mines and unexploded ordnance
neutralized.
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