STC opens fire on workers of Sarar Road Project in Lahj

LAHJ, March. 03 (YPA) – The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia attacked a contractor of the Sarar Road Project in Lahj governorate, southern Yemen.

Local sources in the province reported that militias members of the STC along with their commander Mohsen al-Wali al-Yafei, opened fire at the contractor of Al-Askariyah Road Project and workers in the Sarrar area and beaten the contractor with rifle butts.

The sources confirmed that the militia took the contractor and workers to one of its prisons in the region, after attacking them.

Same sources added, the militia pursues a thug style with the people of the region and workers instead of supporting them and overcoming difficulties to make the project a success.

The attack on the contractor and workers in the project, which is being built at the expense of expatriates from region abroad, caused anger among the people, demanding that  perpetrators to be held accountable.

E.M