A week after a similar explosion in Sanaa, 6 people were killed and wounded, Thursday, after a new Houthi weapon explosion exploded in a popular market east of Taiz.

The explosion hit a weapons store for the Houthi militia in the Maoile Junction, east of Taiz Governorate, at 7 am (local time), killing and wounding a number of civilians, amid a strict Houthi blackout.

According to eyewitnesses and media sources for Al -Ain News, the “explosion took place on a lower floor of a residential building in the popular market crowded with civilians, which caused the entire building to be destroyed and severe damage to homes and neighboring commercial stores.”

The pillars of thick smoke and flame tongues were seen ascending from the place, which was taken as a warehouse with a Houthi weapons dealer who intervened in imposing a security cordon and prevented citizens from photographing and approaching.

Media and human rights sources recorded 3 dead and 3 others were injured, all of them from one family in a preliminary outcome, noting that all the victims were living in an apartment in the top of the store, and they came from one of the villages of the Al -Jarrahi Directorate in Al -Hodeidah Governorate. 

The sources pointed out, "The injured were transferred to hospitals in the Maoile Junction, Al -Hawban in Taiz, Al -Qaeda and Jableh in Ibb Governorate," expected to increase the number of deaths due to the seriousness of the injuries

This explosion comes a week after the explosion of a missile store for the Houthi militias in the district of Sanad, east of Sanaa, which killed more than 40 people, wounded dozens, and destroyed many homes and shops.

Security sources confirmed to Al -Ain Al -Ikhbaria that “a military expert in the Lebanese Hezbollah, Abu Radwan was killed with two Houthi militia leaders when they were on a military mission in the warehouse designated for storing missiles before it exploded in a loud manner.”

The Houthi militia imposes a great media mourning on the explosion of their weapons stores, as many civilians were kidnapped for photographing these explosions, which revealed the use of deliberate militias for civilians as human shields, which threatens the lives of thousands of Yemenis, according to observers.