Marib Emergency Committees Begin its Work to Rescue and Repair Damage Caused by Rain and Storms

Yemen Monitor/News Room

Marib Governorate (eastern Yemen) witnessed heavy rains and thunderstorms that lasted for hours starting Sunday morning, resulting in the death of one person and injuries to six others. The storms also caused damage to displaced persons camps and public services.

Marib Deputy Governor Abdu Rabuh Muftah stated in a press release that “emergency committees in the governorate have been working since the first moment of the rainfall and storms to implement the pre-prepared disaster emergency plan,” according to the official Yemeni News Agency.

He pointed out that civil defense teams and security forces have been deployed to assist in rescue and evacuation operations for affected families in the camps to schools designated for temporary evacuation.

Muftah added that public works and roads teams, as well as the sanitation and improvement fund, have continued to operate their equipment to create water barriers to protect residential areas and camps from accumulated rainwater.

He said that “committees to assess damage and affected families have started their work since the end of the first wave of the storm and rain in the early hours of the morning, and will submit their report to the emergency committee this evening.”

He noted that electricity emergency committees are still working to repair what can be repaired of the damage to the electricity in order to restore power to the camps and residential neighborhoods that have been cut off.

He pointed out that the work carried out by the emergency committee previously to protect the city from the damage of rain floods by working on the sources of the torrents that threatened residential neighborhoods greatly reduced the damage and the disaster that threatened the city.