Yemen Monitor / Newsroom:
The Hudaidah governorate experienced a devastating natural disaster on Tuesday as a wave of severe lightning strikes, accompanied by heavy rainfall, resulted in the deaths and injuries of 18 people across several districts.
According to local sources, a lightning strike hit a mosque in the village of Mahal Dakhn in the Al Qanawis district, killing three worshipers and injuring four others.
In the Bayt al-Faqih district, a child and a young girl died from a similar strike. Another 10-year-old boy was killed in the village of Deir Al-Tubaish within the same district, while another person died in Deir Al-Makin, and three were injured and taken to hospitals in Hudaidah city for treatment.
Other fatalities were recorded in various rural areas, including the death of a person in the Al-Afrad isolation area in the village of Al-Ribatt, a young man who died while working on a farm in Al-Zuhrah, another person who died while cutting trees in Majrab Al-Zuhrah, and a 10-year-old child in Bani Maqbul, east of Bayt al-Faqih.
Local residents warned about the continued danger of the autumn rainy season, emphasizing the absence of any precautionary measures or rescue plans from the Houthi authorities. Residents fear a worsening of these disasters as more deaths occur from direct lightning strikes or from villages and camps being swept away by floodwaters.
