Three civilians, including a woman, were killed in Taiz and al-Bayda governorates in Yemen after two landmines planted by Iranian-backed Houthi militias exploded, and two civilians were seriously injured in a third mine explosion in Mukha.
Two civilians were killed by a landmine planted by Houthi militias in the Al-Sawadiya district in Al-Bayda governorate, local sources told Saba.
In Taiz, a woman was killed and her husband injured by a landmine planted by Houthi militias in Dhoab district, west of the governorate, as they passed a bypass road leading to their home.
A medical source at al-Mukhaa hospital said that a 60-year-old Yemeni man was injured, while his wife was killed by an explosion of an individual Houthi mine while they were passing through a secondary road in al-Maqar area. In a mine explosion planted by the Houthis in the city of Mokha west of Taiz.
It is noteworthy that the Houthi militias turned the west coast of Yemen into the largest field planted with mines, and mines still constitute an obstacle to the return of displaced persons and displaced people to their villages.