Houthi gunman kills female physician at checkpoint in Taiz

English - Thursday 07 February 2019 الساعة 05:31 pm
Taiz – NewsYemen.net

The Houthi militias killed on Thursday a female physician at a Houthi checkpoint west Taiz province, local source said to Newsyemen.

The source added the Houthi gunman named Mahmoud Abdo Abdullah al-Ja'afari shot and killed the female physician Hiba Nabil, a doctor in the Hatharan area in Taiz.

The female physician was accompanied by her husband and on their way for a hospital to conduct an operation for her teeth, the source said.

The source added that the Houthi gunman stopped the car and asked the driver to come to the Police station in al-Rubaiee area who "the driver” apologized to go with the gunman until he finished his work then he would come back.

After the car left the checkpoint for a short distance, the Houthi gunman fired at the car to hit and killed the female physician who was sitting at the back seat of the driver, and died immediately.