ADEN, Jan 11 (NNN-SABA) – Seven internally displaced children died from harsh winter weather, in their displacement tents, in Yemen’s north-eastern province of Marib, a government official said yesterday.
Yemen’s executive unit for the management of internal displacement camps in Marib, said that, “during the past two months, the severe waves of winter cold killed seven children in Marib’s displacement camp.”
He pointed out that, hundreds of Yemeni children currently live in worn-out tents and suffer greatly, due to the lack of winter clothing.
“Many families living in Marib’s displacement tents called for humanitarian organisations to provide them with basic needs,” he said.
The government-controlled province of Marib, hosts the largest displacement camps in war-ravaged Yemen, and more than 2.2 million internally displaced persons live in scattered tents, according to official government reports.– NNN-SABA
