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Floods swept through Yemen amid heavy seasonal rains, leaving at least 16 people dead and flooding dozens of homes, security officials said Thursday.
The casualties were reported in eastern Hadramawt and southern Shabwa provinces, where it began raining late Wednesday, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. Yemen’s rainy season runs from April to the end of August.
At least 25 houses were flooded and hundreds of livestock killed in Hadramawt, the officials said. Yemeni military planes have been rescuing residents trapped in valleys by the flooding.
On Wednesday, Yemen’s National Meteorological Center issued a statement warning Yemenis to stay away from flood ducts in affected areas and to take necessary precautions.
The Arab world’s poorest country has been war-torn since 2015 when a Saudi-led coalition launched a military campaign to forcefully reinstate a resigned regime headed by former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Yemen is located at the southern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, overlooking the Red and the Arabian Sea.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
