Al-Mukalla: Four internally displaced persons were killed and several others injured in Yemen's central province of Marib on Sunday.
The United Nations has said four people have died in Yemen since the end of July, bringing the death toll to 61.
The internationally recognized government's executive unit for internally displaced camps in Marib told Arab News about the deaths, injuries and destruction caused by the weather.
Residents tweeted images and videos of collapsed houses, improvised shelters and electricity towers at Jaa al-Naseem camp in Marib, where parts of the camp were nearly flattened by high winds.
Marib has taken in more than two million displaced people who have fled the war and Houthi brutality in its region.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Sunday that heavy rains and floods have severely damaged 34,260 homes in Yemen and left 57 people dead and 16 injured, with the number expected to rise.
Between July 28 and August 9, flash floods in Yemen killed 31 people and affected 6,042 families in Yemen's western province of Hodeidah, 2,753 families in the northern province of Hajja, and two people died, according to the UN humanitarian agency. And 3,451 affected families were reported in the northern province of Saada. In the southern province of Taiz, 15 people have died and 6,494 households have been affected.
Last week, at least 30 people were killed and others left homeless.
Yemen's National Center of Meteorology on Sunday warned Yemenis across the country not to drive or live near waterways, forecasting heavy rain, flooding and strong winds in Yemen's highlands, and western and southern regions.
At the same time, the Yemeni government on Sunday called on the international community to help thousands of flood victims in the country, unblock highways and restore services in four Yemeni provinces.
President of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad Al-Alimi, said in a meeting with US Ambassador to Yemen Steven H. Fagin that the country urgently needs humanitarian aid to deal with the damage caused by floods and attacks in the Hajjah provinces. , Hodeidah, Taiz and Marib.
Meanwhile, local tribes agreed to hand over seven people suspected of killing local Houthi agents after local tribes convinced the Houthis to end their siege and stop attacking a village in al-Bayda province.
Over the past several days, the Houthis surrounded Hamat Sarar in Al-Bayda's Walad Rabi area and threatened to attack with tanks after locals accused them of harboring four men suspected of killing four members of the militant group.
However, residents said the Houthis were killed in clashes with villagers after fighters killed a villager at a Houthi-manned checkpoint.
According to Nasser Ali al-Sane, a Yemeni activist from al-Bayda, the villagers decided to release some locals to tribal mediation and stage a modest protest to show their support for the Houthis in exchange for the Houthis ceasing their attacks on the village. .
“People knew that the revenge of the Houthis would be terrible, so they decided to organize a gathering and release some villagers to stop the bloodshed,” Al-Sane said.
It came as Yemeni government officials, as well as local and international NGOs, warned of “carnage” if the Houthis attacked the village, as Yemeni militias massed soldiers and tanks and flew drones overhead in preparation for the attack.
“The SAM Organization calls on the Houthi group to immediately lift its siege of Hamat Sarar and stop the policies of intimidation and repression it has practiced against civilians in areas under its control for the past ten years,” said the Geneva-based SAM Organization for Rights and Liberties. in a statement on Sunday.
