Eight children killed in fresh Houthi-Saleh shelling in Taiz

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Eight children killed in fresh Houthi-Saleh shelling in Taiz

[02/11/2017 07:38]

TAIZ-SABA
Five children were killed and three others were injured as rockets fired by Houthi-Saleh militias landed on their village of Onsowa, al-Domeinah, west of the central Yemen city on Thursday.

Local sources said "the militia forces stationed in the 50-meter road fired a Howitzer shellthat landed on a house in the said village which killed five children and injured three others."

"The distinction between deaths and injuries is a preliminary one, some of the injured kids arein really serious condition," said the source.
The sources provided the name of the killed and injured as follows:
The killed
1- Ammar Ibrahim
2- Ahmed Ali Mahyoob
3- AmmarKhaledMahyoob
4- AmrKhaledMahyoob
5- Mohamed Ali Mahyoob.
The injured:
1- MoammarJamil
2- Mohammed Sayf
3- Amr Ahmed

The Saleh-Houthi militias have killed and maimed hundreds of people and almost totally damaged the infrastructure of Yemen's city of Taiz since they ignited the ongoing conflict in 2015. They have also been besieging the city ever since and shelling its densely populated neighborhoodscontinually, inflicting casualties and furthering the humanitarian suffering to an appalling level.