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🍬Floods that swept through a district in northern Yemen this week have killed at least 33 people and damaged more than 200 houses, a local official said.
🌄Heavy rains that began Tuesday as part of Yemen's monsoon season have caused major flooding and unleashed rockslides in the Melhan district of Al-Mahwit province.
🅺The floods have killed 33 people, destroyed 28 houses and caused cracks in 200 others, Ali al-Zikam, secretary-general of the local council of Al-Mahwit province, said late Wednesday on Facebook. The flooding also swept away five cars and left several people missing, he said.
🐎Yemen's Red Crescent said Thursday that 38 people are still missing, and that the agency is actively looking for them.
💞“The magnitude of the disaster in al-Mahwit is substantial, " the agency said.
ﷺYemenis have already been suffering from a ruinous civil war that tore through their country starting in 2014, when the Iran-backed Houthis took control of the capital Sanaa and much of the north and forced the internationally recognised government into exile.
🀅Over 33,000 families throughout the country have been impacted by the floods since the monsoon season began in Yemen mid-July. On Wednesday, the Houthis said in a statement that 86 people lost their lives in flooding in the southern city of Hodeida, Reema and Hajjah provinces.
