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A civilian was wounded in a landmine explosion in Jabal Habashi directorate, in the west of Taiz city, south west of Yemen.
Eye witnesses said that the civilian Sultan Mahyub was injured due a landmine that exploded at his car in the village of Al Quz in Al Ashruh region, in the directorate of Jabal Habashi.
And according to the witnesses, Mayhub was visiting his sister when the landmine exploded at him, noting that the car was badly damaged by the explosion.
The witnesses added that the landmine was planted by the Houthis when they were present in the area.
Colonel Aref Al Qahtani, the Director-General of the Executive Mine Action Center in Taiz said that Al Quz village was cleared from landmines and unexploded ordnance, indicating that the Houthis sneaked into the village to plant landmines.
He added that some Houthis were arrested three months ago while they were planting landmines, noting that the village is situated in the touch-line between the army and the Houthis.
During the last three years, the landmines planted by the Houthis in Taiz province killed 289 civilians and injured 417, according to a report published in the end of last year by the Yemeni Coalition to Monitor Human Rights Violations.
Human rights organizations estimate the number of landmines’ victims in Yemen to be around 8 thousands, mostly women and children.
The Yemeni government accuses the Houthis of planting more than a million landmines in the country’s provinces since the start of the war in the beginning of 2015.
Yemeni laws and the Mine Ban Treaty of 1997 prohibit the use of anti-personnel landmines and consider it a violation of the rules of War.