The UN mission in Hodeidah: 20 civilians were killed as a result of landmines and explosives last August
There were 20 civilian casualties, which represents a 122 percent increase compared to July.
The statement explained that this sharp increase in the number of victims during the month of August led to halting the downward trend in the number of victims that had been observed since last January, indicating that the percentage of children among the victims remained higher than 30 percent.
Last Friday, two girls and a woman from the same family were injured, as a result of the explosion of a landmine left behind by the terrorist Houthi militia, in the village of Al-Khadera in the Al-Humayniyah area of Hays District.
Last week, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned that Yemen suffers from one of the highest rates of contamination with landmines and other deadly explosives in the world, nine years after the brutal civil war began.
