Houthi artillery shells kill 3 civilians in Yemen’s Taiz
SMA NEWS – TAIZ
Artillery shells fired by the Iran-backed Houthis on Sunday evening struck a residential area in Yemen’s densely populated southern city of Taiz, killing three young civilians, army spokesman Abdul Basit Al-Baher told Arab News on Monday.
The shelling came as fighting between government troops and the Houthis flared up in contested areas outside the city.
From their positions on the city’s eastern suburbs, the Houthis on Sunday evening shelled different civilian targets in the city’s downtown, which is under the government’s control.
Their strikes triggered explosions that rocked the city and claimed the lives of three people, residents said.
Unable to seize control of the city’s downtown due to stiff resistance from government troops, the terrorist outfit has laid siege to Taiz for the last six years, frequently targeting civilians, hospitals, houses and schools.
Major rights groups have accused the Houthis of deliberately killing and wounding hundreds of civilians in Taiz and blocking the delivery of humanitarian assistance to tens of thousands of hungry and sick residents.
