Houthi’s shell injures five members of family in al-Hodeida

English - Sunday 20 January 2019 الساعة 05:03 pm
Al-Hodeida – NewsYemen.net

Five members of a family were seriously injured in a Houthi artillery bombardment in al-Hufra neighborhood in al-Hodeida city.

Civilians of the neighborhood told Newsyemen that the Houthi militias targeted the house of Ahmad Saeed Thabet al-'Ariqi with a mortar shell.

The Houthi shelling caused the injured of five residents at the house, including a child and a woman.

The injured were rushed to al-Salakhana hospital and al-Thawra General Hospital in al-Hodeida.

A medical source at the Maternity and Childhood Hospital reported that the child and the woman admitted the intensive care unit at al-Thawra Hospital while the other three injured were still in intensive care at al-Salakhana Hospital.

The Houthi militias had kidnapped a child at the neighborhood a few days ago, and are still holding people who intervened at the moment of kidnap accident until this moment.