Woman killed by a landmine in the Al-Shrija area, north of the Lahj governorate, in southern Yemen today, Sunday. The mine was set by Houthi forces.
Local reports said that Nazira Muqbel Ali Harbi, who was 40 years old, lived in the area of Al-Shuraija in the district of Al-Qubaita. She was killed when an anti-personnel mine set off by the Houthi militia while they controlled the area went off.
He also said that the victim was leading his sheep to pasture when he stepped on a mine, killing him quickly. This happened three years after his brother died after riding his motorcycle to work and hitting a mine.
Also, three civilians, including a child, were hurt when a Houthi mine went off in a civilian car in Wadi Hajar, Al-Dhalea province, southern Yemen.
Authorities in Yemen say that three civilians, one of whom is a child, were hurt yesterday, Saturday, when a Houthi mine went off in a “auto civilian” in Wadi Hajar, Al-Dhalea governorate. The injured were Nabil Muhammad Al-Rifai, Ahmed Muhammad, and Muhammad’s five-year-old son, Abdul Rahman.
A source in the area says that Houthi militiamen left a mine that went off in a car carrying five people, including children, in the town of Al-Mashareeh in the Lower Hajar area of the Al-Dhalea district.
He said that the mine hurt three of them, including a child who was badly hurt, and that the mine also destroyed their car.
The Masam Saudi Demining Project in Yemen and the National Program for Demining say that the militias have placed nearly two million mines in different areas. These mines are of different sizes and have been buried in different places on land and at sea. The militias have also found ways to hide these mines.
Mine clearance in Yemen is hard for a number of reasons. First, there are not any maps that show where the mines have been planted because the Houthi militias have scattered them all over the country. According to the Masam Project, the danger of Houthi mines is not just that there are not any clear maps of how the militias plan to plant them; it is also that the Houthis do it at random and in civilian areas.
The groups have also learned how to change and hide these mines so that they kill as many people as possible. Some of them can be set off from a distance, while others are hidden by the rocks and nature.
A study from the Masam Project made it clear that the Houthi militias have turned Yemen into one of the world’s biggest “fields of evil,” where a lot of people have died. in many towns across the country.
He said the Houthi mines had killed a huge number of civilians, left hundreds of people permanently crippled, cut off the limbs of thousands of victims, and left others totally unable to function.
