Moroccan Officials Refute Claims of Bombing in Smara, Cite Controlled Mine Demolition

Loud explosions in Smara? On the web, the media of the Polisario front broadcast a video on a probable bombing of the city of Smara in the afternoon of Saturday, June 26. The news spread like wildfire before being denied by a reliable local source. It was "the destruction of old anti-tank mines by the engineering services of the Royal Armed Forces in the presence of MINURSO elements".

In the last number, the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) had intervened at the Guerguerat border post, on the border with Mauritania, to reopen the road traffic blocked for weeks by the Polisario militias. Since then, tensions have remained high between Morocco and the independence movement.