Al-Houthi terrorism plunges Yemenis into alternative "death" ways
English - Monday 17 October 2022 الساعة 04:21 pm
Lahj, NewsYemen, private:
Yemenis continue to suffer in moving between the southern and northern governorates through bumpy roads fraught with dangers and fatal accidents due to the Houthi terrorist militia's insistence on refusing to open the main roads for more than 6 years.
The latest picture of this suffering was embodied in the horrific accident that took place last night, on the “Dhamran” highway in the Qubaita district of Lahj governorate, with the fall of a bus belonging to a local transport company, carrying about 42 passengers.
According to media sources, the accident resulted in the death of three people, including a woman, and the injury of dozens of bus passengers, some of whom were seriously injured. They were taken to Al Rahda Hospital and other clinics in the area.
Activists on social media transmitted pictures of the incident, which show the bus after it plunged down the road, and the passengers' bags and luggage appear scattered next to the bus, in a painful scene that embodies the extent of what Yemenis are witnessing due to the criminality of the Houthi militia.
The incident was not the first and will not be the last due to the ruggedness of the narrow and unpaved road, which makes it unsuitable for the passage of buses and large cars that are forced to pass through it towards Aden and the southern governorates due to the Houthi militia's closure of the main roads between the south and north.
The road has become an alternative route to the main roads linking Sana’a and Aden for years, which is the Al-Sharija-Karsh road, which is the main road linking Aden, Lahj and Taiz and from there towards Sana’a, which the militias closed after being expelled from the south in 2016, and to this day they refuse to reopen it.
After the closure of this road, the travelers resorted to another road, which is the Al-Dhalea-Qataba-Damt road, but the militias quickly closed it, so travel turned to another road, which is Al-Dhalea-Al-Fakher-Ibb, which the militias closed in 2018 and still refuse to reopen it despite local mediation.
The closure of these roads made one of the alternative roads between Sanaa and Aden, the bumpy road that passes through the Qubaita Mountains, and another, no less rugged, that passes through the Yafa Mountains to al-Bayda, which cargo trucks resort to, despite the long distance to reach Sana’a via this road, which exceeds 1,200 km. Double the distance across the main roads.
Bumpy roads made traveling between the southern and northern governorates (Sana'a - Aden) take a whole day instead of traveling on the main roads, which ranges only 5-7 hours, in addition to doubling the costs of travel, with the risks they are exposed to.
The suffering and pain of Yemenis at the hands of Iran, which made their right to travel through their roads into a paper to be negotiated and bargained over and included as an item of the UN armistice, and yet it still refuses to implement this clause to this day.
The pain of Yemenis on alternative paths of death remains a humanitarian crime that exposes all the bids and lies of the Houthi gang by raising the “humanitarian demands” paper to justify its obstruction of efforts to extend the UN truce.
