Yemen Monitor/Newsroom:
A civilian in his fifties was injured on Thursday, while two others escaped unharmed after their vehicle hit a landmine in Al-Jawf Governorate (northern Yemen).
The Yemeni landmine Record Center (governmental) reported that “a civilian (Saleh Homran, in his fifties) was seriously injured, and two other civilians escaped unharmed after a Houthi landmine exploded while they were traveling in a civilian vehicle on the desert road in Al-Yatema area of Khab wa ash Sha’af district in Al-Jawf Governorate.”
The United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) had previously stated that it recorded the deaths of 4 civilians as a result of landmine explosions in November in several districts of the coastal governorate overlooking the Red Sea.
The Yemeni government accuses the Houthi group of planting a large number of landmines and explosive devices in roads and citizens’ farms in areas it previously controlled, leading to the killing and wounding of civilians.
International reports indicate that the Houthi group has planted more than two million mines in various areas under its control, resulting in the death and injury of thousands of civilians, most of them women and children.
