Icolo e Bengo - A team from the National Electricity Transmission Network (RNT) accidentally detected four mines this week on the Cambambe-Catete/Luanda highway.
The devices were found while a team assigned to the Luanda Regional Exploration Directorate was carrying out maintenance, as part of its normal activity of cleaning the easements (vegetated paths located under the LT – Electricity Transmission Lines).
According to a press release from RNT to which ANGOP had access on Friday, the facts occurred on the 23rd to 25th of September this year, specifically in the area adjacent to the Botomona Checkpoint (near Calomboloca, municipality of Icolo and Bengo.
At the time, the report said, one of the mines exploded, as a result of having been unintentionally activated by a bulldozer machine that was in operation, but without human or material damage.
Subsequently, the RNT-EP communicated to the defense and security agencies, which removed the mines, located in the perimeters between Towers No. 291 and 292 relating to the Cambambe-Catete 1 220 kV transmission line.
The RNT reveals that it has located three other mines, in the locality of Catete, towards Viana, in Tower No. 327, which will be removed soon.
'In fact, and in view of these occurrences, the RNT-EP appeals to the State's defense and security bodies, in order to exercise greater intervention in these sections, as public safety, the lives of the populations and the continuous preservation of public goods and assets that guarantee the Transmission of Electricity to the multiple communities of the country are at stake', the document reads.
Likewise, it warns evildoers, practitioners of acts of vandalism to public property, to avoid such actions, because they may also be victims of the mills themselves. AJQ/DOJ
