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Explosion kills resident, accuses Houthis who kept weapons in housing complex | ARAB NEWS Explosion kills residents, criticizes Houthis who stored weapons in housing complex – Arab News
Said Al Bhatati
Al-Muqqarah: The Yemeni army said Iran-backed Houthis were forced into and around residential areas following a massive explosion that destroyed several buildings in a compound in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz. accused of storing weapons and ammunition.
Military officer Abdul Basit Al-Baher told Arab News on the 3rd that the explosion that rocked the Houthi-controlled Huban district of Taiz province early on the 1st was at the al-Saleh complex. He said the cause was weapons and ammunition stored in the basements and lower floors of several buildings.
Al-Baher said, "The Houthis have cordoned off the area, preventing ambulances from even reaching the scene to rescue the wounded," adding that "bomb fragments hit homes around the estate, A large number of civilians were killed or injured in the explosion."
A video posted by an individual online showed an explosion on the ground floor of three buildings in the Al-Saleh complex, creating a large fireball.
Other images showed three buildings heavily damaged by the explosion.
Yemeni military officials say the Houthis have moved weapons, ammunition and drones from military bases such as Zamal to residential areas in Taiz and turned them into secret camps on the upper floors of the al-Saleh complex building.
Al-Baher said "the first floor is a workshop and armory for assembling drones and mounting explosives," while the Houthis are among the thousands of people living in Taiz's controlled areas. He said he was putting his life at risk.
"The Houthis are a criminal and terrorist organization that does not care about civilian life."
The Houthis told residents that the explosion was caused by fireworks set off at a wedding in Huban.
Yemen's news agency said Monday that more than 3,000 Houthis abducted from Taiz and other areas are being held in a secret prison in the al-Saleh complex, with parts of the building being used as command rooms and leaders. reportedly used as a hideout for
This is not the first time an explosion linked to a secret Houthi arsenal has occurred in the city of Taiz. Similar explosions have also been reported in Houthi-controlled Sana'a, Zamal and Jawf.
The Houthis are hiding weapons and drones in civilian facilities on the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen non-target list, officials said.
In May 2019, Human Rights Watch and the Sana'a-based Mwatana for Human Rights reported that at least 15 children were killed and more than 100 injured in Savan's Savan district4. He said the moon explosion was caused by a fire at a Houthi weapons storage facility.
Also on the 4th, in Sana'a, relatives of Yemeni abductees held in Houthi prisons staged a rare protest against the sentences handed down to them by Houthi-controlled courts. did
The Mothers of Abductees Association, an umbrella organization representing thousands of female relatives of prisoners of war, staged a protest in front of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The women demanded the release of 13 prisoners previously sentenced to death or imprisonment by a special criminal court in Sana'a.
One of the posters held up by the women read: "We hold the Houthi militias fully responsible for the lives of our sons, because there is no statute of limitations for such crimes." .
The group said the abductees were brutally tortured by the Houthis to force them to confess to their crimes, and the father of one of the convicted abductees was shocked after hearing the court verdict. said to have died in
Meanwhile, more than 23 airstrikes by coalition fighters have killed dozens of Houthis in Maarib and Hajjah governorates, where heavy fighting between government forces and Houthi rebels has taken place over the past 24 hours.
On the 3rd, the coalition announced that 17 Houthi military vehicles had also been destroyed in the strikes.
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