Several dead, wounded due to mortar shell explosion inside IDP camp in Lahj 

LAHJ, Aug. 27 (YPA) – A number of displaced people were killed and others injured on Tuesday due to the explosion of a mortar shell left over from the war in the Al-What camp for IDPs in Lahj province, controlled by Saudi-led coalition in southern Yemen.

Human rights sources reported that the mortar shell was being kept by one of the displaced people with the aim of selling it as scrap iron.

The sources explained that the displaced person tried to break the shell without knowing its danger, so that it exploded directly, as a result of which the displaced person was killed, in addition to killing and wounding a number of others, including women and children, in the camp.

The remnants of the war launched by the coalition against Yemen in March 2015, including shells and cluster bombs, are considered an unknown war that claimed the lives of thousands of innocent Yemenis, most of them women and children, in a number of provinces contaminated with those bombs.

YPA