Two children were killed in the explosion of a landmine in Al Hodeidah Governorate in western Yemen, according to local sources.
The Ad-Durayhimi district’s two children; Hayel Mohsen Zaid Mu’sali, 14, and Fouad Ali Mohammad Mu’sali, 15, lost their lives immediately, the sources reported.
Local sources said the accident took place as the teenagers were riding a motorcycle on their way back home from their workplace in the coal industry, south of the Al-Faza area on Tuesday.
Unfortunately, this is not a rare event on Yemen’s west coast. Another civilian was wounded in Jabal Murad district in Marib, and an elderly man was wounded in Al-Mina district in AL Hodeidah.
Houthi mines and explosives still claim the lives and limbs of civilians in areas south of Hodeidah on an regular basis.
In Marib, meanwhile, an unidentified civilian was killed and another injured in a landmine explosion in the Al-Mahjaza area in Serwah district.
According to the Yemeni Landmine Observatory, Houthi landmines also wounded two civilians from the same family near their house in Al-Matoun district in Al-Jawf.
