‘You only need a bad day to be killed’: Defusing Death in Used is Terror Capital | World News

“If there is a mistake, there should not be a lot of death. I have to be a only one.”

Where is it Islamic State Controlling the ground, the black flag of the Caliphate who stared at violence and the horror that was not said in the city of Raqqa, now people try to return to normal life.

But what is left behind is land mines, IEDs (improvisation explosion devices), booby traps and other explosives that pose a deadly threat to civilians – years after the terror group was expelled from the previous capital.

Throughout SyriaHundreds of thousands of people returned to their homes after the fall of the dictator Bashar Al Assad. But the landscape was injured with unfelieving weapons that were installed not only by IS, but with many sides in the civil war during decades.

Expert Disposal Sunil Thapa knows that at any time he works can be the last.

He is one of the most experienced weapons disposal experts in the world, after reflecting explosives by hand over the past 19 years.

When he worked in Warzones around the world, he thought of his family and his colleagues whose lives had been claimed by work for years.

The days in Raqqa began earlier, 6 am.

“After you move from your home, you can see the remnants of war,” said Sky News who is 39 years old.

“You cannot see a house in Raqqa that is in good condition. They are destroyed or you can see footprints or bullets.

“When you come out, it disturbs your mind. It’s easy to imagine the ISIS occupation (IS), how brutal battles occurred in this area. It took years to rebuild.”

Sunil and his colleagues were only allowed to deviate 300 meters from their accommodation for security reasons when they did not work. But this is a working day, so he heads to the Operational Base of Advisory Group (MAG).

There he directed the team and decided where to go first. There are often some sites in areas that require expertise in relieving mine and explosives, so he must prioritize.

“I went to the place I needed the most. Team work was to detect threats – land mines, cluster ammunition or Eid – solely my responsibility to relieve them.”

He arrived at his first call that day and instructed colleagues about what happened next, telling them how far the exception zone was needed.

“The safety distance must be 100 meters for anti-vehicle mining and 50 meters for anti-personal mines.

“Because when relieving explosives, if there is a mistake, there should be no many deaths. I must be one -only.

“I have dealt with thousands and thousands, I don’t even remember the numbers that I have passed.”

Sunil showed Sky News an anti-vehicle mining that he had made safely, talking through how he relieved it.

Step by step, he explained how he removed the rubber lid before turning the mining element in various directions to fully neutralize explosives.

“But every time, before I reach weapons, the first thing that comes to your mind is that you remember your family. Then you beg your Lord: ‘This time let me go and meet my family.”

He added: “If people say they are not afraid, they might lie. No matter how skilled you are, or how much experience you have, you only need a bad day to be killed.

“If I hold an anti-personnel mine and it slips from my hand and touches the ground with enough strength, it will explode.”

Sunil, from Western Nepal, began in the Nepal army, throwing land mines in two UN peace maintenance missions in Haiti and Mali.

Now he works for mag, a global humanitarian organization that discovers, eliminates and destroys land mines, cluster ammunition and bombs that do not explode from places affected by conflict.

The group, which was supported by Princess Diana, this week was awarded the Humanitarian Prize of Conrad N Hilton, the highest global humanitarian award that recognized non -profit throughout the world dedicated to reducing human suffering.

Executive Chief Darren Cormack said the prize was “recognition of tireless and brave jobs from our global staff”.

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The scale of the magic challenge in Syria is very surprising.

Since the fall of Assad there have been more than 1,100 victims from land mines and weapons that have not exploded, including nearly 500 deaths, according to data from the Humanitarian Organization Inso.

And the situation can be worse. This year more than half a million Syrians have returned to their homes. This is expected to increase to two million at the end of 2025, said the United Nations.

Sunil did a job for his wife and son, who lived at home in Nepal. He said he was likely to retire from his frontline work in a few years to spend more time with them.

After starting at 6 in the morning and working for hours under the sun, Sunil usually returns around 14:30.

There are two restaurants that are allowed to visit in the safe zone of 300 small meters around his residence.

He slept for a few hours before dinner, fatigue from the day’s job on the field, and did the exercise before turning for that night.

The next day, he will return at 6 am, ready to continue his dangerous work but it is important to make Raqqa safer for his people. One ground mines at one time.