A Houthi supervisor, impersonating a security officer in the Security Investigation Department of Dhamar Governorate, in northern Yemen, killed a bus driver, transporting him from the city of Sanaa to Dhamar Governorate, which borders it to the south, after he refused to pay the transportation fare.

Yemeni media reports stated, on Thursday, that “the officer in the Criminal Investigation Department in Dhamar Governorate, upon his arrival in the governorate, refused to pay the fare to the bus owner, which they had agreed upon before leaving Sanaa,” after arriving at his destination in Dhamar.

As a result, a verbal quarrel broke out between the two parties, but the bus owner’s insistence on taking the fare was met by the Houthi officer, who emptied his bullets into the young man’s body, killing him instantly.

According to reports, the Houthi militia, specifically those in charge of the Dhamar Governorate Security Department, are clearly trying to protect the perpetrating officer, by diluting the case, and forcing the victim’s family to receive his body and bury him, and to accept tribal arbitration, which the family has rejected until now.

It was reported that the victim, a young man from the Ibb Governorate in central Yemen, was preparing to celebrate his wedding a few days later.