YEMEN Press Agency

Mahra witnesses suffocating fuel crisis

MAHRA, June 24 (YPA) – The city of Al-Ghaydah, the provincial capital of Mahra, is experiencing a suffocating fuel crisis for the third straight day, coinciding with coming Eid Al-Adha.

Local sources in the province reported that the long queues for citizens’ cars waiting in front of oil stations in the city to supply.

The sources added that the oil derivatives crisis began three days ago in Al-Ghaydah, coinciding with the power outage to citizens due to the depletion of diesel.

According to media sources, the cause of the crisis came after the ship loaded with oil derivatives ran aground in a wrong place in the port of Nishtun three days ago.

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