Six civilians, including children and women, injured in Houthi attack on Taiz

Six civilians, including two children and two women, were injured on Saturday when Houthi militia launched artillery and sniper attacks on residential neighborhoods in Taiz province, southwestern Yemen, according to the local Office for Siege Affairs.

In a statement, the office said one shell landed near a house in the Al-Zahraa area as a woman was collecting water from a charitable distribution point, injuring her and her two children with shrapnel. Three other civilians were wounded by shelling and sniper fire in the Al-Qahfa, Al-Sijn in Al-Jabalayn, and Al-Jubaila areas.

The list of injured published by the office included Tawfiq Fadl Ali Mohammed, aged three and a half, and his sister Taleen Fadl Ali Mohammed, six, who both suffered shrapnel wounds to their right legs in Al-Zahraa, along with their mother, Asmaa Hassan Mohammed Salam, 35, who sustained a shrapnel injury to her right hand while fetching water.

Mintha Abdu Hizam, 35, was shot by a Houthi sniper positioned at Tabbat Al-Afham in Al-Qahfa village, Al-Aqroud area, while Abdulmajid Mohammed Ahmed Mathna, 25, was shot in the left thigh in the Al-Sijn area.