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A woman was killed and her children were injured, as a result of the explosion of a landmine from the Houthi militia remnants in Al-Jawf Governorate.
Local sources confirmed that a landmine planted by the Houthi militia on the road linking Ma’arib Governorate and Al-Yatma region, northern Al-Jawf Governorate, exploded into an entire family while they were passing through the road, which resulted in the death of a woman and injury of her children.
This comes 72 hours after the death of 3 civilians and the injury of 3 others in a similar explosion, on a road eastern Al-Jawf planted with hundreds of miscellaneous Houthi mines.
Earlier human rights reports stated that the civilian victims of Houthi mines from the beginning of this year until the end of last October, amounting to 68 people, including 37 dead.
International reports indicate that, throughout the years of the coup that sparked in September 2014, the Houthi militia planted more than two million landmines in more than 15 Yemeni Governorates, which resulted in the death and disability of thousands of civilians, including women and children.
The militia planted on the roads, farm borders, around drinking water wells, civilian housing and others, various mines including anti-vehicle, anti-personnel mines and marine mines, some of which are unexploded mines and ordnance imported and developed locally.