Citizens died due to heat wave sweeping Aden city

ADEN, June 14 (YPA) – About 8 citizens have been killed due to a heat wave as a result of the power outage in residential neighborhoods in the coalition-led city of Aden, south of Yemen, for the past 24 hours.

According to medical sources in the city on Wednesday, most of the deaths were elderly and newborn children, due to respiratory complications.

The sources added that the ongoing electricity cuts and the rise in temperatures contributed to doubling the suffering of the people in the city, amid the delay of the coalition countries, whose armed factions have controlled the city since 2015.

Aden hospitals receive many cases of dyspnea that the elderly suffering from due to the power outage in their homes because of the depletion of fuel from the city’s power station, which estimates 2,000 tons per day at about one million and 200,000 dollars.

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