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3 civilians killed and one wounded in two days because of the Houthi militias’ mines in Al Hodaydah
The militias continue planting landmines and explosive devices in major roads and sub-roads in Hays directorate while the Joint Forces’ clearing teams dismantle landmines and explosive devices.
The Joint Forces’ clearing teams in the western coast started arriving to Qataba region, in the east of Al Khokha directorate in Al Hodaydah province, to survey and clear it from the landmines and explosive devices which the Houthi militias planted and left behind, and which pose a daily threat that can kill and maim more civilians.
The clearing teams conducted vast survey operations in the region to clear it from the landmines and explosive devices which were planted by the Houthi militias, and to destroy them and secure the area, after the landmine explosion that martyred 2 civilians and destroyed their motorcycles on Friday in the east of Qataba region. The clearing team working in the area found another landmine after leading a comprehensive survey operation.
In the same context, the Clearing teams of the First Giants Brigade, known as “Al Amaliqah”, dismantled an explosive device that the Houthis have planted near a civilian home in Hawsh Al Baqar region in the surrounding of Kilo 16, east of Al Hodaydah city, while the Clearing teams were carrying a survey in the region.
Sources from Newsyemen said that the two victims were on a cart pulled by a donkey, to bring water from a farm near their homes in the village of Al Jaribah, east of Al Durayhimi.
Eyewitnesses told Newsyemen that Hasan Said Mandhari, a 29 year old, died while he was being transported to a field hospital in Al Durayhimi, as for the kid, Amer Ibrahim Khudhairi, he was wounded by shrapnel in his belly and legs, and was transported to the field hospital in Al Durayhimi, then to Doctors Without Borders in Al Mocha city.
The Houthi militias also closed the main entrance to Mafraq Saqam and denied civilians passage in one of their checkpoints in the south of Hays directorate in Al Hodaydah, after the killing of one of their commanders by the Joint Forces. The militias mined afterwards vast areas of the sub-roads there.
The sources indicated that the Houthi militas mined vast areas of the sub-roads in the villages of Dhami and Dar Al Amous which civilians used as alternative roads to enter Hays city and the liberated areas, instead of the main road which the Houthi militias filled with landmines and explosive devices for fear of the advance of the Joint Forces, after the militias’ defeat and retreat from Hays city in February 2018.