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Six deminers killed in Yemen blast

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The project, MASAM, said on its website that the six experts, whose nationality was not given, died in a blast at a depot containing mines and other explosive devices which were to be destroyed.

In January, five foreign experts also with MASAM -- two from South Africa, a Croatian, a Bosnian and a Kosovar -- died in an accidental explosion in the central province of Marib.

Rights groups say landmines have killed and injured hundreds of civilians and blocked aid deliveries since a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the government's war against Huthi rebels in 2015.

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 10,000 people -- most of them civilians -- have been killed and more than 60,000 wounded in fighting since March 2015.

Rights groups say the toll could be much higher.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Press), 2019