Four girls drowned yesterday in Al-Dhalea Governorate after falling into a water barrier to collect torrents of rain in Wadi Al-Muqallad, Al-Sharas Al-Sila area.

According to security reports, the girls drowned while returning from collecting firewood and passing through the dam, attributing the causes of the unfortunate accident to fate and their inability to swim.

Noting that the process of recovering the bodies of the drowned girls was carried out by the people of the area, and they were also handed over to the families for burial ceremonies.

While 3 other people died in separate drowning incidents yesterday in the governorates of Hadramaut Al-Sahel, Al-Hudaydah, Hadhramaut Al-Wadi, and the Desert.

In this context, the Ministry of the Interior and the Civil Defense Department warn citizens of the dangers of children and those unable to swim in areas where rainwater collects, water barriers, ponds, and dams.

It warns citizens of the consequences of neglecting children in those places that are considered a real danger and certain death, in addition to their inability to swim and their miscalculation of the risks to their lives.

It calls on fellow citizens to be careful and careful not to be present in streams of rain and to leave it, especially during these days when meteorology warns of the continuation of low air pressure and the continuation of heavy rains in various regions and governorates of the country.