A local official in the agricultural province of Amran in the north of the country told Reuters that a thunderbolt struck a funeral for women in the Hashif area in the Al-Asha district, killing 6 women and wounding about 19 others.
Official sources in the mountainous Hajjah Governorate, northwest of Yemen, said that 7 people were killed and 8 others were injured yesterday evening, as thunderbolts struck several areas in the Houthi-controlled governorate.
In Ibb governorate in central Yemen, local sources and residents confirmed that 5 houses in Haddah Ghalis area in Al-Seddah district were destroyed by heavy rains that fell on the area, and floods and torrential rains washed away large areas of the village’s agricultural lands, and some of them were buried with hundreds of tons of gravel and stones.
Many areas of Yemen are currently witnessing, since the middle of last month, torrential rains, torrential rain and thunderstorms, which have claimed dozens of lives, displaced a number of residents, and caused severe damage to service infrastructure, health facilities, citizens’ properties, agricultural lands and valleys, and flooded many camps for the displaced in the northeastern Ma’rib Governorate.
Last week, the United Nations announced the death of 77 people as a result of heavy rains and floods in Yemen.
The international organization said that more than 35,000 Yemeni families in 85 districts in 16 out of 22 governorates have been affected by heavy rains, torrential rains and devastating floods in large areas of the country since mid-July.
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