A Yemeni slaughters his son and cuts off his head from his body.. to discipline his wife!

A Yemeni man slaughtered his young son and separated his head from his body, in the village of Lakma Lashaob in Al-Dhalea Governorate, Yemen.

On Thursday morning, the 3-year-old boy was killed with a manual harvesting machine (shrim or sickle) in one of the agricultural fields in the area.

Local websites reported, quoting residents of the area, that a number of people rushed to the area after hearing about the crime, and transferred the child's body to a hospital refrigerator in the city, suggesting that the motives for the heinous crime were previous differences between the father, his wife, and the mother of the victim.

For his part, the murderer's father justified his heinous act by saying that he wanted to discipline his wife, and according to "Russia Today", sources indicated that the people of the area arrested him and handed him over to the governorate's security department.

Amid widespread condemnation and demand for his trial.

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