Africa-Press – Angola. 1,521 unexploded explosive devices of various calibers were destroyed between January and June of this year, in Huambo province, by the National Demining Center (CND), Tuesday.
The information was provided by the interim director of the CND in Huambo, Castro Kapanda, who said that there were 1,445 pieces of ammunition, 72 different devices and four anti-personnel mines, mostly removed from the municipality of Chicala-Cholohanga.
In the same period of 2022, 1,28 different unexploded explosive devices were destroyed, including 853 ammunition, 172 explosives, two anti-tank mines and one anti-personnel mine, according to the source.
Castro Kapanda said that the work of collecting and destroying explosive devices was being carried out satisfactorily, due to the fact that the population was increasingly getting into the habit of denouncing as soon as they came across this type of artifact in inappropriate places.
He referred that the increase in the habit of the culture of denunciation results from the awareness, in the first six months of this year, of 15 thousand 519 citizens, among children and adults, who learned about the risks of mines, against the five thousand of the same period of 2022.
He said that during this period there had been an accident with an explosive device in the Santo António neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the city of Huambo, which resulted in the death of one person and injuries to five others.
Regarding clean spaces, the assistant director informed that the CND had clarified two million, 73 thousand and 700 square meters suspected of mines, against two thousand in the similar period of the previous year.
With an area of 35,771 square kilometers, 11 municipalities, 37 communes and 3,387 villages, the province of Huambo, home to over two million 600,000 inhabitants, has already been considered one of the regions of the country with the most mined areas, due to the long armed conflict experienced by Angola.
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