At least five children were killed in the explosion in southwestern Yemen Conflict news

The explosion took place on Friday night in the city of Tayez, which was a battle in the civil war in Yemen.

Witnesses and witnesses said that at least five children in southwestern Yemen died after an explosive device exploded in a residential area where they were playing football, rights and witnesses.

The circumstances surrounding the accident are still late on Friday in the Hashma sub -area in Tayez Province.

However, on Saturday, the Yemen Center for Human Rights and another group of rights called Eye of Humanity, along with the Houthi Al Masirah TV, said that the artillery shell was launched by militias backed by the Easy -party party, which is referred to the internationally recognized government in southern Yemen.

Two local populations who were witnesses, Ahmed Al -Shiri and Khaled Al -Araki, told the Associated Press news that children play football when the explosion occurred.

At least three people suffering from minor to moderate injuries to the hospital, according to witnesses. Meanwhile, Mahmoud Al -Mini, another witness, said that the explosives were directed from an area where the forces allied with the Esla Party were present.

A UNICEF spokesman, UNICEF, told Associated Press that they are aware of the accident, but they could not verify the facts at the present time.

The Yemen Center for Human Rights condemned the incident in a report that included graphic pictures of torn bodies for children. Quoting health care sources at Al -Rafai Hospital, where the victims arrived without response, the group said that they died from shrapnel.

Two children were 12 years old, while two others were 14 years old, according to the group. The era of the fifth child is unknown.

Tayez City, the capital of Tayez Province, was a battlefield, where she was putting the Houthis against other armed groups supported by the ASA party against each other and other factions in the civil war in Yemen.

The city has been under the Houthi siege since 2016, as it restricted freedom of movement and the flow of basic commodities to the population, but the Houthis recently opened the main roads.

The destroyed civil war began in Yemen in 2014 when the Houthis seized the capital, Sana and many northern Yemen, forcing the internationally recognized government on exile.

A coalition led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including the United Arab Emirates, intervened in 2015 to try to restore the government to power.

Unlawful years of peace talks also failed to break the stalemate. But the conflict has been largely frozen since the two sides had reached a ceasefire in 2022.

Supported Emirates Southern Transitional Council It controls most of the south, which was broken due to the civil war. The Council calls for the secession of the south and has its own forces, allied with the internationally recognized government, fighting the Houthis.