DUBAI: Houthi attacks on Yemen’s Marib province killed at least five people Friday, according to a minister and military source, as the militia escalated strikes on the region a day after their deadliest attack in years.
The latest violence has raised the spectre of a return to war in the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country, where a 2022 truce between the Houthis and the government had largely held before unraveling last month.
A Houthi drone strike in Marib killed three members of government forces, a Yemeni military source told AFP, while the health minister for the government said the militia shelled residential areas and displacement camps in Marib city, killing at least two civilians and injuring 14 others.
The health minister Qasim Buhaibeh said in a post on X that “shelling by the terrorist Houthi militia today, Friday, targeting residential neighborhoods and displacement camps in the city of Marib, has resulted — according to an initial toll — in the deaths of two civilians and injuries of varying severity to 14 others.”
The Houthis had also launched “more than 10 missiles and seven one-way attack drones targeting military camps in Marib” province, the Yemeni military source told AFP, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
