YEMEN Press Agency

Islah party militias break into Al-Thawrah hospital in Taiz, kidnap patient

TAIZ, July 21 (YPA) – A group of militants belonging to the Islah party militias on Saturday kidnapped a patient from inside the Al-Thawrah Hospital in Taiz, by force of arms, local sources reported.

According to the sources, the gunmen broke into al-Thawrah hospital by force of arms and broke the door of one of the patients’ rooms and kidnapped a patient.

The patient Nader Amin Mohammed Qayed was kidnapped after he just came out from the operation room in front of his wife and mother, and the hospital’s guard kept silent.

The abduction of patient Nader, is the second in less than three months, after the “Islah militias abducted an injured person from the MSF hospital”slaughtered him in the street and his body dumped in Wadi Sayelah.

The incident sparked widespread protests, and MSF announced the suspension of its work in Taiz.

E.M