Sudanese authorities have launched an operation to destroy tens of thousands of pieces of weapons left by the conflict in the capital Khartoum. It includes land mines, unexploded ordnance and various explosive devices.
Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall reports from the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
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00:0013-year-old Fadl Abdurrahman receives treatment at the new hospital in Underman.
00:07His two hands were smashed by an explosive device inside an abandoned home.
00:13We were playing when I saw an iron object.
00:17I told my brother to hand it to me. When I pulled it, it went off.
00:21His mother believes it's a small hand grenade left inside the ruins of a nearby home
00:29and the boy pulled its fuse unaware of the risk.
00:36The Sudan Mine Action Center says 49 people have lost their lives and many more have been wounded by various types of explosive devices
00:45since the recapture of Khartoum by the Sudanese army in March.
00:50The center has launched a campaign to remove the threat.
00:54Part of it involves regular demining of recent battlefields across the city.
01:00Other activities include the collection of munition from buildings and streets, taking it to safe places to be dispensed with.
01:09The remnants of war such as artillery shells were left inside people's homes, civilian facilities, ministerial buildings and so on.
01:19We've been removing what we found and gathering it here and right now we're getting rid of it.
01:25We don't have a time limit because people continue to discover more explosive material.
01:31With meticulous preparation, ditches are dug in an open field outside Khartoum.
01:36Then explosives along with the targeted munition are buried under a heavy layer of sandbags.
01:42We're going to see three detonations involving more than 2,000 pieces of ordnance including land mines, mortar shells and other types of explosive devices.
01:54It's going to continue like this for the next few days until more than 50,000 pieces are destroyed.
02:01But that may not be the end of the campaign. The center has an open mandate depending on need. Even potentially reusable weapons once found are destroyed.
02:13This program is sponsored by the UN and for humanitarian considerations we never hand any ammunition that we find to the army or the government. We get rid of it as hazardous material.
02:26Hazardous too is the task itself for those in charge. They say they're working without the best protection gear and without sophisticated inspection tools.
02:41But they have to proceed with the program due to its extreme urgency.
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