Floods and torrential rains that hit Kuwait recently revealed dozens of Iraqi mines buried in the desert since 1990, threatening sites where Kuwaitis often sleep during autumn and winter.

"The floods swept away many mines, ammunition and bombs from the remnants of the Iraqi invasion in most of the camping areas in northern Kuwait," said Deputy General Director of the Farwaniya and Al Jahra municipalities in central and northern Kuwait. "The Civil Defense Committee headed by the Minister of the Interior recommended After the rains and floods in the country in the middle of this month to postpone the camping season in the desert until the Ministry of Defense finishes combing all the sites of camping.




"We are waiting to receive the sites after securing them from the Ministry of Defense."

The Ministry of Defense is currently combing 18 sites, usually at the request of the Kuwaiti municipality, to ensure that they are free of any military remnants, Shtayli said.

The Ministry of the Interior revealed the dismantling of the competent bodies 48 mines, and received 20 reports of the emergence of suspected military remnants in the land areas of the province of Jahra, adjacent to the Iraqi border, after the erosion of soil due to torrential rains and heavy rains in the country.

According to Kuwait's official statistics dating back to 2016, Kuwait has been able to remove about one million and 650 thousand mines since 1990. Then said former Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry, Suleiman al-Fahd said that "about 350 thousand mines are still a threat to civilians."

The camping season in Kuwait usually lasts four months. It starts in mid-November and ends in mid-March, but bad weather has pushed the Kuwaiti municipality this year to postpone granting permits for the camps.