Flash floods have triggered by heavy rains have killed at least eight people, including children, across several provinces of Yemen over the past two days.
In Hajjah province in the northwest, the Houthi-run 26 September website quoted a civil defence source as saying that a house collapsed on its residents in the village of al-Khadraa in Ku'aydinah, killing three children and injuring the father and mother.
Separately, the Security Media Center of the Interior Ministry in the Houthi-run government said on Saturday evening that “floods destroyed dozens of makeshift tents and fragile shelters belonging to displaced people in Abs district of Hajjah province.”
In the southeastern oil-rich province of Shabwah, residents said a father and his son drowned in floodwaters late Friday in the district of Usaylan.
Residents urged to avoid riverbeds
Their deaths came just hours after two children and a young man drowned in separate incidents in Shabwah and neighboring Hadhramaut, bringing the death toll from drowning in the two provinces to five within 48 hours.
On Tuesday, heavy rains triggered floods in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, injuring several people and causing significant property damage.
Authorities in multiple provinces have issued warnings of continued heavy rainfall and the risk of further flash floods, urging residents to avoid riverbeds and dams.
Yemen’s fragile infrastructure, badly damaged by more than a decade of conflict between the internationally recognised government forces and the Houthi group, has compounded the humanitarian toll of seasonal floods, with residents complaining of the lack of basic services.
