Yemen: 10 People, Including 4 Children, Killed due to Floods

Today, Sunday, 10 people, including 4 children, died in Yemen as a result of heavy rains that are still falling in several areas.

Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, which includes historic buildings on the United Nations list of world archaeological sites, and adjacent areas, has witnessed rainfall since last week, and its pace has increased dramatically since Saturday.

A doctor at the Republican Hospital in Sanaa said that the rains "caused the collapse of part of a building in the capital, which led to the death of four children." The three-story building is located in a historical district.

The traffic police in the capital's secretariat announced on Saturday that "traffic movement has been almost completely interrupted in a number of streets and intersections as a result of torrential rains," according to the Saba news agency, a spokeswoman for the Houthis, who have controlled Sanaa for years.

Nashwan al Samawi, head of emergency operations in the governorate, told the Saba news agency that floods swept away a car on a road in Dhamar governorate in southern Sanaa killing the driver and five passengers.

Conflict since 2014 between the Iran-backed Houthis rebels and government forces has left hundreds of thousands dead in fighting or through illness and malnutrition.

There has been a truce since April.