Local sources and residents in Yemen reported that five people died in the provinces of Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah in southeastern Yemen due to heavy rains causing devastating floods, triggered by a low-pressure system affecting the south of the Arabian Peninsula.
This increases the total number of civilian victims since the onset of the floods in Yemen to 12 people in less than a week.
Residents and a local official in Wadi Hadhramaut told Reuters that the floods and rain caused significant damage to numerous mud-brick homes and buildings and blocked flood drainage channels.
They added that at least three people died after their vehicle was swept away by floodwaters in the Wadi Ain area of Hurrah in Hadhramaut. Additionally, today a drowned body was recovered near a flood channel in the city of Al-Qatn in Wadi Hadhramaut. The locals mentioned that they were unable to identify the deceased.
Local and government sources in Al Mahrah province, bordering Oman, told Reuters that a 14-year-old girl drowned in a pond formed by the floods caused by the low-pressure system that hit the province on the Arabian Sea on Saturday evening.
Local sources also reported that two young men died and three others were injured due to lightning strikes in the provinces of Hajjah and Saada.
The sources noted that a young man died in Al Miftah directorate in the mountainous Hajjah province in northwest Yemen, bordering Saudi Arabia, while one person died and three others were injured by a lightning strike in the Al Sadad area of Ghamr directorate in Saada province, north of Yemen.
Two young men previously died on Thursday due to a lightning strike in Sharab directorate, north of Taiz province.
A government report confirmed that the heavy rains and resulting floods caused extensive material damage and displaced more than three thousand families.
