SANAA, Apr 6 (NNN-SABA) – Yemeni government officials said, shelling by Houthi rebels, Sunday, hit a prison for women, in a southwestern province, killing at least six prisoners.
The officials said, the attack also wounded at least two dozen prisoners, including four children, staying with their imprisoned mothers, at the central prison, in government-held Taiz province.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, because they were not authorised to brief the media.
The increased violence in the Arab world’s poorest country has displaced more than 40,000 people since Jan, adding to the roughly 3.6 million, who fled their homes since the war began more than five years ago.
Yemen’s civil war erupted late in 2014, when the Shiite Houthi rebels seized the capital, Sanaa, along with much of the country’s north. The Houthi advance ousted President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
A U.S.-backed, Saudi-led military coalition intervened in early 2015, to try and restore Hadi’s government.
The war has killed more than 100,000 people, many by Saudi-led airstrikes. It has triggered what the United Nations described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, leaving millions suffering from food and medical shortages.– NNN-SABA
