Houthi explosive pen kills three young girls, injures youth in Mocha
English - Wednesday 29 May 2019 الساعة 10:36 pm
Mocha – NewsYemen.net
In the morning of 2017, Maysa Saleh, 12-year old-girl, came out her house to bring water in her al-Gharib village in Mocha district, she found a pen while on her way.
The pen was beautiful by its external shape, she kept it, she hid it to not to be accused of stealing while on her way house.
When her mother told the girl to go to a small field to deliver launch to her brother Zeyad, 23, she took the pen with her.
When she arrived in the agricultural field, she took the pen out to show her two friends, girls, same as her age.
She removed the cover of the pen so as to write, unaware of the dangers she was carrying such a pen.
The pen, filled with explosive device, exploded at the three young girls, the pen killed the three girls immediately as the pen was very near to their faces and their bodies.
The Houthi pen filled with explosive device planted by the Houthi militias, the Iranian arm in Yemen.
Then the tragedy came to an end, exploding and turning their three bodies into torn pieces. The pen was a Houthi bomb. The scene was followed by a monstrous silence except from the moan of Zeyad, who was wounded by shrapnel in his body, while bodies' remains of young girls were scattered and mixed with each other.
Zeyad also lost one of his fingers and suffered a psychological shock that he has not recovered yet.
It is a great tragedy for the family and a shock to the people who attended and collected the remains of burned bodies for burial in an incident that reflects the brutality of Iran's agents.
