Houthi shell kills woman, injures two children in al-Hodeida

English - Friday 01 February 2019 الساعة 03:46 pm
Al-Hodeida - NewsYemen.net

A 30-year-old woman was killed, and her two children were wounded on Thursday in a Houthi mortar shell on a residential neighborhood in the center of the city of al-Hodeida, west Yemen.

Local sources said to Newsyemen that the Houthi fired the mortar's shell on al-Sha'ab school, fell into the courtyard of a house in al-Zuhoor area in al-Salakhanah area, killing the woman and injuring critically her two children.

A medical source at al-Salakhanah hospital confirmed the arrival of the body of a mother in her thirties at the hospital, in addition to two children who were taken by the hospital staff to the Intensive Care Unit at al-Thawra Hospital