Yemen: Yesterday, sources indicated that 14 people were killed in Yemen, and several others were injured in the capital due to heavy rains caused torrential rains by an air depression coming from the Arabian Sea.
This brings the total number of civilian casualties since the floods began in Yemen last month to 59.
A local official in Sanaa told the media that the torrential rains caused the collapse of a large number of houses and mud buildings and blocked the flood drainage channels.
He added that at least three people were killed and 16 others were injured in Sana’a, including two girls who died and the mother was injured in Wadi Ahmed after a water tank fell on the roof of the house on them, while a young man in his twenties was killed in Ma’in district in western Sana’a.
And local sources in the mountainous Hajjah governorate in the northwest of the country told media that two children from one family drowned in the torrential rains that fell on Tuesday in the isolation of Bani Hassan in the Abs district of the border governorate with Saudi Arabia.
A government report also confirmed the death and injury of eight displaced persons and six missing in the Ma’rib Governorate.
A report issued by the Executive Unit for the Management of IDPs Camps stated that the torrential rains during the past hours caused the death of three IDPs in the Ma’rib Governorate and the injury of five others.
There are six IDPs missing in Ma’rib Governorate, according to the official report.
The heavy rains caused severe damage to about 500 ancient houses in the old city of Sanaa, which is included in the list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a World Heritage Site.
The movement of cars and public vehicles stopped in a number of streets, main intersections, tunnels and bridges that were flooded by rainwater.
