Islah militants storm citizen’ home, arrest child in Taiz

TAIZ, Dec. 3 (YPA) – Armed militias loyal to Islah stormed a citizen’s home in city of Taiz, southwestern Yemen, local sources said.

According to the local sources, members of a security unit belonging to Islah militants stormed the home in the Bab Musa neighborhood and took a child at gunpoint.

The sources said that two military pickup vehicles besiege the house before storming it to abduct 13-year-old Muhannad Nasr al-Shamiri and take him to one of their detention facilities.

The security forces justified the operation by claiming to obtain information from the child without giving details of the type of information.

The city of Taiz witnessed an angry demonstration today due to security deterioration and spread of armed factions under a complete complicity of the Hadi government.

E.M