Thousands seek shelter in crowded rooms in Aden: ‘One of my sons had a motorcycle, so I told him to take his children and flee’; UN says renewed war ‘should alarm us all’
It was a heart-pounding escape. As Iran-backed Houthi rebels swept south along Yemen’s Red Sea coast this week, some residents had little time to flee.
“We set out in hysterical panic on a motorcycle, not knowing where we were heading,” Alaa Ali Salem said. “The roads suddenly became extremely congested, and while I was driving, the motorcycle overturned. My wife, my children and I were all injured.”
His family and thousands of others, in numbers leaping by the day, had now been displaced as the Arab world’s poorest country faces a potential return to a devastating civil war.
The Associated Press on Saturday visited some of the newly displaced in Aden, a city under the control of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, as residents opened homes to them.
